## Description of problem: Using the gnome-software utility's method to upgrade the system, that is with a Restart & Install, the system will reboot and start upgrading via SystemD. After the upgrade completes, the system's grub bootloader will drop to a grub command line immediately after booting. There is no way to boot the system after this, attempting to manually boot using the proper linux16/initrd16 parameters causes a kernel panic. When in this state, booting the Live CD iso and mounting the filesystem on the disk can cause the problem to be resolved. A reboot without the Live CD after mounting the filesystem earlier will yield a normal boot as expected. ## Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-software-3.22.1-1.fc25.x86_64 gnome-software-3.22.5-1.fc25.x86_64 systemd-231-10.fc25.x86_64 systemd-231-12.fc25.x86_64 vmlinuz-4.8.6-300.fc25.x86_64 vmlinuz-4.9.5-200.fc25.x86_64 ## How reproducible: Always ## Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a fresh virtual machine with a blank hard disk and network disconnected. 2. Mount the Workstation Live CD (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25-1.3.iso). 3. Boot the Live CD. 4. Run the Install to disk application. 5. Use custom disk partitioning with the following options specifically: a. Create an LVM partition with / mount point, leave desired capacity empty. b. Change File System to 'xfs'. c. Click 'Update Settings'. d. Click 'Done' in upper left / finish custom partitioning. e. Accept warning about no swap partition. 6. Begin installation, ensuring network is offline so Live CD cannot download latest packages, fill out any user settings you'd like, and wait for it to finish. 7. Quit the install to disk application and shutdown the machine normally. 8. Remove the Live CD from the machine. 9. Power on the machine, boot normally, and login. 10. Run the gnome-software utility (Activities -> Software). 11. Enable the network of your machine, go to the 'Updates' tab, and click the refresh button in the upper left, and wait for it to download updates. - If it says 'cancelled by user action', click refresh again. 12. When you see a list of packages, click 'Restart & Install' in the upper right, confirm you'd like to restart and install, and wait for the system to reboot and the installing updates prompt to finish. 21. Your system should have rebooted after finishing installing updates, and you should now be dropped to the grub command line. ## Actual results: After upgrading the system via gnome-software/SystemD method, the user is dropped to a grub command line and is unable to boot the system. ## Expected results: Upgrading the system via gnome-software/SystemD method would work correctly. ## Additional info:
I am at loss here what is happening. I don't think it's gnome-software's fault at least; could be something like systemd doing an unclean shutdown maybe and then grub fails to read the uncleanly unmounted partition or something?
I don't believe gnome-software is the offending application. I do believe that systemd is the one performing an unclean shutdown resulting in the uncleanly unmounted partition. If I recall from the time I opened this, the issue was due to the xfs journal not being closed properly after systemd upgraded the system. This resulted in the xfs partition not being mountable during boot.
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