Oops. F10 Beta ate my laptop

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 17:34:34 UTC 2008


2008/10/29 Daryll Strauss <daryll.strauss at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I had a chance to install F10 Beta on a new laptop a couple weeks back.
> Because it was a laptop, I chose the encrypt disk option. I was updating my
> system with the latest code as it arrived, usually the same day. Everything
> has been great, until today.
>
> Last night another 50 or so packages updated, and since it included a
> kernel, I shut down. This morning when I booted the laptop, it starts up and
> shows that it is booting Fedora 9.92. I see the blue/white bar appear and
> make progress.
>
> Normally it would stop shortly after this starts and prompt me for my
> password. That never happened. Instead it the blue bar progressed all the
> way to the right side of the screen, the Fedora 9.92 text turned white, and
> then the it just sat there.
>
> I tried hitting escape during the process, but that brings up an empty
> console with a blinking cursor, but no text. So I don't seem to have any
> more diagnostic information available.
>
> One other caveat in terms of complete disclosure. I was running the nVidia
> drivers. With my previous updates that hasn't been an issue. The kernel
> updates and I don't get X when the system restarts. I then reinstall the
> nVidia package and reboot the system where everything comes up normally. I
> don't believe this is related to the problem, but I hate when my customers
> leave details out of their requests. Nothing else is particularly unusual
> about the system.
>
> I'm not sure what to try next. If there's more diagnostics I can collect,
> let me know. If someone has a suggestion as how to get my laptop back to a
> bootable state, that would great. It would be a PITA if I had to reinstall,
> but not the end of the world.
>
> Let me know,
> - |Daryll
>

See this BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468856

Believe there is an issue with the Rawhide mkinird and encrypted disk
partitions.

If you have a previous kernel, you should be able to boot with that.

BZ describes reverting mkinitrd and rebuilding the initrd, but I
suspect a "fix" is in the works.

Hope this helps.

tom
-- 
Tom London




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