OT: diagnosis of failure to boot

2020-08-11 Thread geoff
Reboot stopped at emergency mode. journalctl -xb does not list any complaints (that I can find), but there's clearly something wrong! Any suggestions as to diagnosis? kernel is 5.7.9.200. selinux is disabled. livecd boot is OK; disk is accessible. I saved the output of journlctl, so i

dealing with gdm failure

2010-01-11 Thread geoff
On restart after what appeared to be a normal hibernate (from disk) the system came up as normal, but it was evident that there were severe problems. The flashing-light daemon reported problems with coreutils. So I rebooted. System would not go to runlevel 5, but 3 was good. I discovered that abrtd