On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:41:09 -0400 Chris Murphy wrote: > Is the GRUB "rescue" menu entry ever useful in resolving problems?
I've never had any use for it. I tend to boot off a USB stick if I want to investigate a problem independent of the current software. > failure patterns that you tend to see The only consistent failure pattern I see is a new install locking up due to nouveau driver problems when web browsing. I always go with the default nouveau drivers when I install a new fedora version and for several years now, my system has always experienced these total lock up failures within a week, usually within 2 hours. They disappear once I install the rpmfusion nvidia drivers. (The failure is always a sudden lock up, leaving no clues in log files because the whole system is frozen, I'm only sure it is nouveau because it goes away when I switch to nvidia). Far less frequently I'll find that my wireless keyboard isn't talking following a reboot of a new kernel, only occasionally happens on new kernels, not consistent. A complete power cycle fixes it, but so does unplugging and plugging back in the USB dongle (which now sits out front in an easily reachable position on a hub :-). The only other consistent failures I see are user errors because I never read the release notes till I have to because I can't get sound to work when I then find pulse is gone and pipewire is the new thing and the config info I copied from previous system is wrong (just to pick a recent example, disappearing ifcfg file support in networking is another one). _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
