On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:28:57 -0400 Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Doug, > > Le 2012-06-25 01:20, Doug Laidlaw a écrit : > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:04:40 -0400 > > Marc Paré<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I was in the process of working out problems with a friend of mine > >> who had trouble with her config files and I wanted to boot into > >> "safe mode" to walk her through "drakconf". > >> > >> When I tried to boot into safe mode it stopped at "Failed to issue > >> method call: Transaction is destructive". My box still boots fine > >> into regular mode but won't in safe mode. What is curious also, is > >> that I have another box that I am repairing for someone and it does > >> the same thing, it won't boot into safe mode. However, I tried it > >> on laptop and it does boot into safe mode. Weird. > >> > >> Anyway, any ideas on how I could get safe mode to work properly > >> again? I took a camera shot of the monitor and the output on the > >> last page of booting up into safe mode where it died[1]. > >> > >> NOTE: all systems are running Mageia2 > >> > >> Thanks for any help. > >> > >> Marc > >> > >> [1] http://www.parentreprise.com/images/Mageia/Photo0137.jpg > >> > >> > > It looks as though you aren't the only one: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266172 and the bug > > report quoted there may be of some help. Note that Fedora uses lvm > > by default. There are other reports in Google as well. > > > > HTH, > > > > Doug. > > > > > > Thanks for the note. > > This is really not what I am experiencing, although perhaps having > shared folders may be the cause of the problem. I don't imagine that > if my system were not to be able to boot in normal mode that I would > have the tools on me to fix the problem as I would be unable to boot > into any safe mode. > > Our Mageia2 systems should be able to boot, at the very least, into > safe mode, regardless of any prior configurations. I have 2 boxes > where booting in safe mode is not possible. > > Cheers, > > Marc > I just rebooted mine into Cauldron as a test. At the Cauldron bootloader screen, I selected "failsafe." Everything booted OK and I got a prompt saying "Welcome to rescue mode." I don't know if that is the normal result for single user, but a few lines above, it said it was "Reconfiguring at administrator request," and called a single user config. It would seem that your problem doesn't arise for everybody (Wouldn't it!) Doug.
