On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> 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 really know what the underlying > cause is for it to fail. > > What exactly was the "improper shutdown" > > The easiest way to debug is to livecd boot it mount up the old > filessystems on say /oldroot (rootfs) mount /oldroot/usr for usr and > so forth and then cd /oldroot and do a "chroot ." > > I would expect the chroot . to fail with some sort of error that may > hint at what is broken. > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 7:15 AM murph nj <murphnj+fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 9:07 PM Tony Nelson <tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> > > 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) to be, but mounted ro at that point > > > (`cat /proc/mounts` should show it mounted at /sysroot (see `man 5 > > > fstab` > > > for format); `ls -l /sysroot` should show the contents you expect). > > > (All off the top of my head; I haven't rebooted to test.)
I was able to mount all of the boot drives, and it seemed OK, I couldn't see anything that was out of order. Unfortunately, I'm going to need this laptop next weekend, so my journey of discovery on this is going to have to end, since I couldn't fix it, I'll have to reload. We gave it a shot though, and I have some new things to try for other potential issues. Again thanks for the help. --murph _______________________________________________ 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
