Description of problem:

When upgrading rawhide (dnf upgrade --refresh) I get a machine which never finishes booting, not even from the rescue kernel (eventually get Give root password for maintenance IF booting rescue kernel) Otherwise, machine must be hard powered off. Rescue kernel eventually boots to very minimal cli functionality.

After update completes, and then reboot:

systemd-journald failed to create notify socket: protocol not supported
A start job is running for journal service
A start job is running to kernel device manager
A start job is running for ...droot.device

failed to start journal service
failed to start udev kernel device manager
  see systemctl status systemd-udev.service

Just continues trying these repeatedly

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. disabled selinux, turned off screensaver
2. dnf upgrade
3. reboot

Actual results:
update paused here but then cotinued

  Erasing     : kernel-modules-4.9.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc26.i686             315/401
  Erasing     : kernel-core-4.9.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc26.i686                316/401
warning: file /lib/modules/4.9.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc26.i686/updates: remove failed: No such file or directory
  Cleanup     : systemd-udev-231-11.fc26.i686                           317/401

machine is a virtualbox vm. I am updating this after creating a snapshot so I can go back to a known good machine.

update completes, then reboot

systemd-journald failed to create notify socket: protocol not supported
A start job is running for journal service
A start job is running to kernel device manager
A start job is running for ...droot.device

failed to start journal service
failed to start udev kernel device manager
  see systemctl status systemd-udev.service

Just continues trying these services repeatedly and failing


Expected results:
Machine boots to lxde login screen

Additional info:
update paused here but then continued

  Erasing     : kernel-modules-4.9.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc26.i686             315/401
  Erasing     : kernel-core-4.9.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc26.i686                316/401
warning: file /lib/modules/4.9.0-0.rc0.git9.1.fc26.i686/updates: remove failed: No such file or directory
  Cleanup     : systemd-udev-231-11.fc26.i686                           317/401

machine is a virtualbox vm. I am updating this after creating a snapshot so I can go back to a known good machine.

WHEN DOING UPDATE If I exclude systemd-udev, about half the updates get missed because of broken dependencies but the machine boots.