Updating rawhide installation makes it basically unbootable

2012-07-13 Thread Michal Jaegermann
I was away from my rawhide test system for roughly two and a half
months and today I tried to bring it up to date.  In this particular
case this meant that I updated today, so far, 1355 packages.  That is
where troubles started.

An attempt to boot 3.5.0-0.rc6.git2.1.fc18.x86_64 kernel, with
initramfs produces by dracut-020-84.git20120711.fc18.x86_64 (yes, I
have seen warnings about dracut-020-51) does not boot at all.  After a
long delay I am getting on a screen:

dracut-initqueue[131]: Warning: Could not boot.
dracut-initqueue[131]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/x2f1 does not exist

Entering emergency mode.  Exit the shell to continue.
Type journalctl to view system logs.

Typing journalctl repeats mostly the same as above.  Not very
illuminating.  As far as I can tell does not exist is right as this
initramfs does not detect ANY of disks which happen to be on my system
so missing partitions are not a surprise.  systemd serves as an init
so it is not clear to me how to even start debugging this nastiness.

Booting old 3.4.0-0.rc4.git2.1.fc18.x86_64, which used to work just
fine, also gets me into troubles.  Partway through a boot process at
41.250027 mark (this frog was supposed to be at least quick, right?)
systemd goes into a long funk and eventually comes back with

[  107.823548] systemd[1]: Job dbus.socket/start failed with result
'dependency'
..
followed by more of failed with result 'dependency' and additional
bunch of Dependency failed for ... for mostly anything you may want.
That eventually ends up with:

Welcome to emergency mode. Use systemctl default or ^D to enter
default mode.
Press enter for maitenance(or type Control-D to continue):

Maitenance shows that from all my file systems on / and /usr are
mounted at this point.  Typing 'mount -a' gets also the rest and
one can start network and exit this maitenance shell to get to a
graphic login screen.  Any attempt to log there will be rejected,
though, most likely because none of the stuff which is supposed to run
at this point is running.  One can get at least through a remote login.

Any ideas what is really going on and how to start to cleanup that
mess?

To add an additional annoyance this update decided to switch, by itself,
my timezone to US/Eastern.  What a bright idea was that?

   Michal
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Re: Updating rawhide installation makes it basically unbootable

2012-07-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:31:39 -0600,
  Michal Jaegermann mic...@harddata.com wrote:


To add an additional annoyance this update decided to switch, by itself,
my timezone to US/Eastern.  What a bright idea was that?


This was reported at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837344

It was supposed to be fixed in glibc-2.16-2.fc18. I haven't tested the fix 
as I didn't have another system I wanted to update just yet.

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Re: Updating rawhide installation makes it basically unbootable

2012-07-13 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:07:00PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:31:39 -0600,
   Michal Jaegermann mic...@harddata.com wrote:
 
 To add an additional annoyance this update decided to switch, by itself,
 my timezone to US/Eastern.  What a bright idea was that?
 
 This was reported at:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837344
 
 It was supposed to be fixed in glibc-2.16-2.fc18.

It does not look that fix worked too well.  Updates took me from
glibc-2.15-33.fc18 to glibc-2.16-2.fc18.

 I haven't tested
 the fix as I didn't have another system I wanted to update just yet.

Hm, I wonder how it will work for you.  It took me a bit by surprise.
This is minor in a general picture but was not that welcome.

   Michal

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