On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:41 PM Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks, Stan. I guess the files are almost similar, since they
> > > > have almost the same size:
> > >
> > > I agree. Your issue isn't the issue I had. Debugging these early
> > > issues is hard, because it has to be done from the emergency
> > > console. But, I think I remember there being other consoles to
> > > switch to that had things like logs, and there are some commands
> > > available, if you do an
> > > ls /usr/bin
> > > or
> > > ls /usr/sbin
> > > you should be able to examine the system to some extent to find why
> > > it is failing. I remember using less and vi at least. Could you
> > > mount one of the partitions and save / cp or cat the logs to a file
> > > there, maybe in your home directory. Then you can examine them
> > > from a working system, and even attach them to a bugzilla or email.
> > >
> > > > # ls -n /boot/initramfs*
> > > > -rw-------. 1 0 0 83396891 Jan 21 2020
> > > > /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-5cbe81aa795444b29a47ec1bf2b6dca1.img
> > > > -rw-------. 1 0 0 37876860 Aug 14 11:45
> > > > /boot/initramfs-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64.img
> > > > -rw-------. 1 0 0 37878341 Aug 26 12:28
> > > > /boot/initramfs-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.img
> >
> > Thanks, Stan. Finally, I was able to capture the log of
> >
> > journalctl -xb
> >
> > which is at:
> >
> >
https://bugzilla-attachments.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1985687
>
> So, this seems to be the error:
> Aug 28 19:05:39 localhost @ystemctl[626]: Failed to switch root:
> Specified switch root path '/sysroot' does not seem to be an OS tree.
> os-release file is missing.
>
> And it looks like it was triggered by this:
> Aug 28 19:05:39 localhost systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 569
> (plymouthd).
>
> After that message, systemd starts shutting down instead of starting up.
>
> Do you have fedora-release for fc38 installed? I can't see how you
> wouldn't, but just confirming. It looks like there is a bug in the
> code that is determining whether os-release is present, but only for
> warm restarts, not for cold boots. That would be plymouthd.
> Or whatever is creating the warm restart isn't creating it properly, so
> that plymouthd can recognize it, I think that would be systemd.
>
> Were either of those in the large batch of updates you installed? If
> so, you could try downgrading them from koji to see if it fixes the
> error.
>
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/
Thanks, Stan.
I do have:
# rpm -q fedora-release-38
fedora-release-38-36.noarch
#
Moreover, both plytmouth and systemd that I have installed correspond
to versions dated earlier than the date of the first occurrence of the
reported issue.
With the older
kernel-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64
there is no issue.
Maybe the following is relevant:
----------------------------
# dracut --force --kver 6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 --verbose
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --force --kver
6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 --verbose
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command
'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command
'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command
'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command
'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because
command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because
command 'biosdevname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command
'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command
'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command
'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command
'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because
command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: *** Including module: bash ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-sysusers ***
dracut: *** Including module: nss-softokn ***
dracut: *** Including module: dbus-broker ***
dracut: *** Including module: rngd ***
dracut: *** Including module: dbus ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: *** Including module: network-manager ***
dracut: *** Including module: network ***
dracut: *** Including module: ifcfg ***
dracut: *** Including module: drm ***
dracut: *** Including module: plymouth ***
dracut: *** Including module: dm ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-dm.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 55-dm.rules
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-network-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: lvm ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 56-lvm.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-lvm.rules
dracut: *** Including module: resume ***
dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
dracut: *** Including module: terminfo ***
dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 70-persistent-net.rules
dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: usrmount ***
dracut: *** Including module: base ***
dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
dracut: *** Including module: memstrack ***
dracut: *** Including module: shutdown ***
dracut: *** Including modules done ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files ***
dracut: Mode: real
dracut: Method: sha256
dracut: Files: 2153
dracut: Linked: 81 files
dracut: Compared: 0 xattrs
dracut: Compared: 974 files
dracut: Saved: 563.14 KiB
dracut: Duration: 0.057574 seconds
dracut: *** Hardlinking files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin ***
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: *** Stripping files ***
dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.img' ***
dracut: Using auto-determined compression method 'pigz'
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file
'/boot/initramfs-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.img' done ***
#
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Paul