Bug 2480661 - Fedora boot failure after unexpected reboot
Summary: Fedora boot failure after unexpected reboot
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dracut
Version: 45
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
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Assignee: Pavel Valena
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-05-21 23:37 UTC by Nathan
Modified: 2026-05-30 05:01 UTC (History)
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Description Nathan 2026-05-21 23:37:26 UTC
After an unexpected machine reboot, the Fedora system hangs during boot in the dracut-initqueue phase. The initramfs cannot find a required block device referenced by UUID, causing repeated timeout warnings and preventing the system from completing boot.
Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start the virtaul machine 

Actual Results:
The system repeatedly prints timeout warnings during boot and waits indefinitely for a disk identified by UUID.

Main symptoms:

dracut-initqueue timeouts
missing /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
boot stuck during initqueue processing
timeout scripts started

Expected Results:
The machine starts up correctly and runs gboot 

Additional Information:
dracut-initqueue[438]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: timeout, still waiting for following initqueue hooks:

dracut-initqueue[438]: Warning:
/lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2fdisk\x2fby-uuid\x2fd233f670-8c82-47d7-8e3f-d995f1dd8a7e.sh

dracut-initqueue[438]:
[ -e "/dev/disk/by-uuid/d233f670-8c82-47d7-8e3f-d995f1dd8a7e" ]

Job dracut-initqueue.service/start running
(2min 43s / no limit)

Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d2start running
(2min 45s / no limit)

dracut-initqueue[438]:
Warning: dracut-initqueue: starting timeout scripts

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2026-05-27 18:34:51 UTC
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