On Thu, 2025-10-02 at 12:57 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Folks, > this is the second system since F40 that has become unusable after a power > cycle. What happened is thunderbird became unkillable so I chose to reboot > my system. After 10 minutes of waiting to reboot I decided to hit the > power button. I have done this before on F40 and earlier systems without > problems. This happened on an F42 system a while ago, but In this case it > is an F41 system. After restarting the system the first problem is I saw > the following message > > systemd[1] Freezing execution > > Again I had to power cycle the system. The second time it showed the login > prompt for maintenance mode. I put in the root password, but nothing > happened so I hit ctrl-d. I got this message > > reloading system manager configuration > > But after 10 minutes nothing happened and no feedback so again I > power cycled the system. Again this time it came up in maintenance mode and > I put in the root password and after several minutes I got a root prompt. > However, nothing I type is displayed. The video seems really messed up as > can be seen in the attached photo. > > At this point I'm not sure what to do to recover.
An obvious question: have you tried booting the rescue kernel? poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
