Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2022-01-23 Thread Ruggero Lot
Two years later, I can say that this error might still be a thing. I concluded that the most likely cause is my mother. Jokes aside, she unplugged the power chord before the pc switches off completely. Through the years, she managed to crash in the same way f33, f34, and now f35. This time I had

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-14 Thread murph nj
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Symbolic links missing on / (/bin->/usr/bin and such). > /bin/bash missing or corrupted. > /lib64/ libraries missing or corrupted. > systemd itself missing, pivot root attempts to run systemd and that > may be what is failing, but you don't

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-10 Thread murph nj
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Symbolic links missing on / (/bin->/usr/bin and such). > /bin/bash missing or corrupted. > /lib64/ libraries missing or corrupted. > systemd itself missing, pivot root attempts to run systemd and that > may be what is failing, but you don't

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-10 Thread Roger Heflin
Symbolic links missing on / (/bin->/usr/bin and such). /bin/bash missing or corrupted. /lib64/ libraries missing or corrupted. systemd itself missing, pivot root attempts to run systemd and that may be what is failing, but you don't really know what the underlying cause is for it to fail. What

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-10 Thread murph nj
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:07 PM Tony Nelson wrote: > > Usually, when it all goes wrong just after pivot-root, there is a > problem with the new (real) root. Exactly how it goes wrong is not > useful. I would look hard at whatever is mounted at /sysroot. It > should be what you expect / (root)

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-09 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-09-09 14:10:24, murph nj wrote: Tony: Can you give me some insight as to what the boot process does next AFTER that pivot point? The output I'm getting isn't enlightening me, and I'm not quite sure where to look next. ... Usually, when it all goes wrong just after pivot-root, there is

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-09 Thread murph nj
Tony: Can you give me some insight as to what the boot process does next AFTER that pivot point? The output I'm getting isn't enlightening me, and I'm not quite sure where to look next. I can just reinstall, but I'm trying to learn more about how to recover from errors, instead of taking the

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-05 Thread murph nj
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM sixpack13 wrote: > > e2fsck is for ext -partitions > AFAIK /boot/efi is fat ! You are correct. I already checked, all the partitions are fine. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-05 Thread sixpack13
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Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-05 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 17:42:40 -0400 murph nj wrote: > I had not, but I edited from the grub menu, and eliminated them. I > was then able to see the messages. (I was able to see them previously > by hitting the escape key right after entering my password for the > disks.) > > Everything left on

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:56 PM Tony Nelson wrote: > > > It dies trying to pivot-root, so add to the kernel command line > > rd.break=pre-pivot > Interesting. I was able to drop to a shell. I took a look at the journal, and it looked like a possible hibernation problem, so I took that out

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-09-04 17:42:40, murph nj wrote: ... Everything left on the screen after the kernel panic is (too much to type) https://imgur.com/a/kf81crl ... Unfortunately, it goes right to a kernel panic, so no prompts at all to work with. (I'd have chewed on it more before asking for help if I

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:42 PM murph nj wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400 > > murph nj wrote: > > > > > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. > > > > Did that include the boot partition, where the

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400 > murph nj wrote: > > > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. > > Did that include the boot partition, where the kernels and initramfs' > are? > I had not, but on your suggestion, I

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400 murph nj wrote: > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. I was > also able to move all of my important data off of the drives to an > external, so I'm not worried about any loss to the data on the drives. > No worries of fatal mistakes

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. I was also able to move all of my important data off of the drives to an external, so I'm not worried about any loss to the data on the drives. No worries of fatal mistakes anymore. I also took a look at the journals that were left,

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:33:59 -0400 murph nj wrote: > The power supply was not the problem, it was the battery. All > subsequent testing has been done plugged into power. It also boots > just fine from a USB stick with either Mint or Fedora. > > There are three kernels available from the boot

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread murph nj
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:45 AM stan via users wrote: > > > The switch root is changing from the initramfs to the installed OS. If > there is a power problem, it is possible that memory is not working > properly, and disk reads are erronious. Fix the power supply before > you go any further.

Re: Improper shutdown, now Kernel panic.

2019-09-04 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 22:31:52 -0400 murph nj wrote: > I've got an Acer laptop that has been shutting down suddenly. (I > suspect a bad battery, working on that.) > > After a sudden shutdown last night, I now get a kernel panic on boot > right after "Starting Switch Root..." The switch root is