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Created attachment 527021 [details] Screen snapshot Description of problem: several messages : --> ex: can't acces tty : KDE does not start. see attachment Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 15 How reproducible: at boot Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Start KDE Additional info: Sorry. I am not very expert. If you need more information, please, tell me. I have sent the configuration during Fedora 15 installation. This problem occurs only on boot from hard disk, not from live USB.
I restricted to KDE file system because I could not escape selecting an item. I don't have enough knowledge to specify the component. It would be helpful to add an "I don't know" item.
There's actually a "distribution" component for when there's really no fitting package. In this case, kde-filesystem or any other KDE stuff cannot possibly have anything to do with it, because this fails inside the initrd, in very early boot, as evidenced by the "dracut" in the debug shell. The "can't access tty" message only comes up when the debug shell is already getting started, so it can't be the cause of the boot failure. The real problem must be one of the earlier messages. I've put the last one into the bug topic, but I'm also not sure whether that's the fatal error here. I'm reassigning this to "kernel" in the hope that one of the kernel maintainers can figure out what's going wrong there. Is this a hardware issue?
Which kernel is this? Is there any way you can run 'dmesg' from the prompt and copy the output somewhere? Has any version of Fedora booted on this machine from this drive before, and if so what kernel version is that using? Lastly, if you can boot from the LiveUSB key or some other Linux version, can you provide the output of the SMART data on the drive?
Thanks for answers by Kevin Kofler and Josh Boyer Here are the informations you asked for: I think I found the source of the problem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer : TOSHIBA Satellite P770/P775 Manufacturer TOSHIBA Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz RAM 4.00 GB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disk drive on which Fedora 15 is installed : TOSHIBA MK5075GSX Properties (Information below got under Windows 7) Hardware Ids IDE\DiskTOSHIBA_MK5075GSX_______________________GT001M__ IDE\TOSHIBA_MK5075GSX_______________________GT001M__ IDE\DiskTOSHIBA_MK5075GSX_______________________ TOSHIBA_MK5075GSX_______________________GT001M__ GenDisk Compatible Ids GenDisk Service disk Device class DiskDrive Device class guid {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} Driver key {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0003 Config rags 00000000 Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Friendly name TOSHIBA MK5075GSX Location information 0 Physical disk object name \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-1 Capabilities 00000080 CM_DEVCAP_SURPRISEREMOVALOK Bus type guid {1530ea73-086b-11d1-a09f-00c04fc340b1} Legacy bus type 0000000F Bus number 00000000 Enumerator IDE Address 0000FFFF Power data Current power state: D0 Power capabilities: 0000000B PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED PDCAP_D1_SUPPORTED PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED Power state mappings: S0 -> D0 S1 -> D1 S2 -> Unspecified S3 -> D3 S4 -> D3 S5 -> D3 Removal policy 00000001 Removal policy default 00000001 Install state 00000000 Base container Id {00000000-0000-0000-ffff-ffffffffffff} Display name TOSHIBA MK5075GSX Device instance path IDE\DISKTOSHIBA_MK5075GSX_______________________GT001M__\4&3B404081&0&0.0.0 DevNode status 0180000A DN_DRIVER_LOADED DN_STARTED DN_NT_ENUMERATOR DN_NT_DRIVER Problem code 00000000 Removal relations STORAGE\Volume\{68166db9-a82a-11e0-9fc0-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000 STORAGE\Volume\{68166db9-a82a-11e0-9fc0-806e6f6e6963}#000000005DD00000 STORAGE\Volume\{68166db9-a82a-11e0-9fc0-806e6f6e6963}#00000070A1B00000 Parent PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03&SUBSYS_FC301179&REV_04\3&11583659&0&FA Siblings IDE\DiskTOSHIBA_MK5075GSX_______________________GT001M__\4&3b404081&0&0.1.0 IDE\CdRomTSSTcorp_CDDVDW_TS-L633F________________TF01____\4&3b404081&0&0.2.0 Container Id {00000000-0000-0000-ffff-ffffffffffff} Safe removal required <false> Bus reported device description TOSHIBA MK5075GSX Drive Node Strong Name disk.inf:disk_device.NTamd64:disk_install:6.1.7600.16385:gendisk Install date 07/07/2011 01:48:45 First Intall date 07/07/2011 01:48:45 Driver assembly date 21/06/2006 02:00:00 Driver assembly version 6.1.7600.16385 Driver assembly description Disk drive Inf name disk.inf Inf section disk_install Inf section extension .NT Matching device Id gendisk Provider Microsoft Rank of installed driver 00FF0004 Class upper filters PartMgr Class lower filters thpdrv Class default device type 00000007 Class default characterisics 00000100 Class long name Disk drives Class short name DiskDrive Class installer StorProp.Dll,DiskClassInstaller No install class <true> Silent install class <true> Class icon path %SystemRoot%\System32\imageres.dll,-32 Display name Disk drives Class co-installers SysClass.Dll,StorageCoInstaller SysClass.Dll,CriticalDeviceCoInstaller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora 15 installation I downloaded Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso I made a USB live using LiveUSB Creator No boot problem from USB I installed to Hard disk Everything worked well I restarted I updated KDE to version 4.7 (as advised in http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/08/fedora-15-kde-how-to-upgrade-to-kde-47.html) cd /etc/yum.repos.d su -c 'yum install wget' su -c 'wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/kde47/fedora-kde47.repo' su -c 'yum update' On restarting, GRUB displayed the following : Fedora (2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64) Fedora (2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64) Other This seems strange : I have only one linux system Boot failed on both choices with the screen I have sent to you I re-installed Fedora 15 from USB Menus are unusable in kde 4.6 ; they display garbage I updated kde using KPakageKit and kde 4.6 is corrected : works fine It seems that the problem comes from kde 4.7 or the repository of rdieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please, advise . Shall I keep kde 4.6 . Is there an official kde 4.7 ? . Shall I wait for Fedora 16 ?
I'd advise simply using what works for you. Fwiw, there won't be any official kde-4.7 for f15 (beyond the unofficial builds you mentioned), kde-4.7 will be included with F16.
I really don't see how KDE SC 4.7 can possibly break your boot so early in the boot process, at a time where nothing KDE-related has even been started at all. I strongly suspect that there's some hardware issue involved.
In addition, the HDD information you posted did not include SMART information, i.e. the information relevant to establish your HDD's health. Please post the output of the following GNU/Linux command (i.e. run this in a Konsole or a text-mode terminal under Fedora): smartctl --all /dev/sda You may also want to test your RAM, there should be an option to boot a memory checker (memtest86+) on your live USB stick.
Oh, and what kind of drive is sdc? Is that a HDD? If so, run smartctl on that, too.