Description of problem: * I had a damaged FS which fsck could not repair * systemd then was asking for a root password to enter what I think it called the emergency repair shell or some such Problem 1: While doing this it did not tell plymouth to switch back to textmode (or it did but plymouth did not listen), so I never saw the rootprompt * Booting without rhgb on the cmdline I get the sulogin prompt, enter the root password -> hang. Press CTRL+C sulogin again, enter the (correct) root password again -> hang again, and I could press CTRL+C again, which would redo from start. Problem 2: sulogin to get to an emergency shell to manually repair a broken FS does not work (seems to hang).
I am pretty sure this is this fix: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/commit/?id=cbe8269481a0272a51d72dc35a54a1fe20c93dfc Will be in F16 soon.
systemd-36-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-36-2.fc16
Package systemd-36-2.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-36-2.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-36-2.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
systemd-36-3.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.