Description of problem: After reboot from successfull installation I get dropped to emergency.target but I have no shell. There's a mess "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-Workstation-dvd-x86_64-25-20161007.n.0.iso How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Default automatic partitioning qemu/kvm. Reboot. 2. 3. Actual results: You are in emergency mode...[...snip...] Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. Press Enter to continue. And pressing Enter gets me plymouth graphical boot screen, ESC get me text that says the above with an additional line: Warning: default.garget changed on disk. Run 'systemd daemon-reload' to reload units. Expected results: Should boot normally. Additional info:
Created attachment 1208281 [details] virsh console Added parameters: systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console console=ttyS0,38400 Captured with virsh console.
Created attachment 1208282 [details] journal, systemd debug Bad virsh console capture, replacing original attachment.
lines 2149-2184 in attachement seem to show ostree-prepare-root-service works, although there are some confusing messages in there. But then home.mount: Mount on symlink /home not allowed. home.mount: Failed to run 'mount' task: Too many levels of symbolic links home.mount: Changed dead -> failed home.mount: Job home.mount/start finished, result=failed [FAILED] Failed to mount /home. The /etc/fstab contains: /dev/mapper/fedora-home /home ext4 defaults 1 2 Isn't it supposed to get mounted at /var/home first, and then ostree bind mounts that to /home? OK so comment that out. And now I don't get an emergency mode boot, it boots pretty much all the way then abruptly reboots and I'm back at GRUB... Sounds to me like assembly problems.
Yeah so it looks like /dev/mapper/fedora-home is being mounted *after* ostree has setup the virtual root we see (rather than the one on the drive). lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Oct 7 16:09 home -> var/home And that means stepping on a symlink which isn't allowed. So this is an ostree+anaconda bug, the fstab should be mounting /dev/mapper/fedora-home to /var/home.
Yep, making that change and now the system boots, and I get to gdm/login screen.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XJH2VQSHMPP3BA52EYADJKT7JBJAPBMC/
I was thinking about this more, and one thing that would help this a lot is to teach systemd-fstab-generator to follow symlinks when generating the mount units. Given that symlinks in /etc/fstab worked in RHEL7 (and older), this seems like it would be very much in line with increasing compatibility, while keeping mount units clean.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6293
*** Bug 1290888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The systemd change is in rawhide. Related Anaconda changeset: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/1124
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This should be fixed now in f27
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