Thank you very much indeed, Roger! Without your help, I would have not fixed the problem.
I did remove both the nofail than the "0 0", and everything seems to be working fine! I have already rebooted and no emergency mode appeared. Paul On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 9:38 PM Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > remove the ,nofail and see if it goes to emergency mode still. > > If it does then remove these from the grub file > rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root > rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap > > And add this in its place: > rd.lvm.vg=fedora_localhost-live > > The above 2 options indicate that only those 2 lv are being turned on > early on, but not home. I just turn on the entire vg and then > anything in that vg is available to be used without having to > explicitly list each one, it is easier to deal with than listing each > and every lv which is what anaconda does by default. You could also > add rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/home > > If home tries to mount early on it will fail, but once all vg are > turned on later in the boot it would then work. ,nofail would allow it > to continue on and try later, otherwise it hangs for 90 seconds and > fails and sends you to emergency mode. > > You could leave ,nofail on it, my practice is to get the machine up > and on the network and avoid any emergency mode so anything not > critical to boot I add ,nofail, the disadvantage is when you login you > have to realize the mount is missing. > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:54 PM Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Stan. After having run > > > > fsck /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home > > > > within emergency mode and rebooted, the problem seems to be resolved. > > > > Paul > > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:28 PM stan via users > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:23:35 +0100 > > > Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > This morning, I tried to run VirtualBox, but it did not start. Then I > > > > tried to do a reboot and while booting, I got into emergency mode. I > > > > typed my root password and issued the command > > > > > > > > systemctl reboot > > > > > > > > It reboots, but again I got locked into emergency mode. > > > > > > > > How can I overcome this? > > > > > > What skills do you have? Are you comfortable with examining logs, > > > troubleshooting, editing a boot line, etc? There can be many reasons > > > for this to happen, so a person has to play detective to find out why > > > and fix it. There are limited tools available at the emergency prompt. > > > You can run > > > ls /bin > > > to see them. If you have a live cd or usb available, you can boot > > > into it and mount the installed system, and do your forensic > > > investigation from a more complete environment. > > > > > > What happened in the last hours that you used your system? Did anything > > > out of the usual occur? Have you run the exact same command > > > successfully in the past? Is it possible there was a hardware error? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
