On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Kinkaid, Kyle <kkink...@usgs.gov> wrote:
> Hi Fedora Wearers, > > I'm having some boot problems on my Fedora 18 workstation, KDE Spin. > > System background: > I have a Dell Precision workstation, with two HDs, and full disk > encryption. The two HDs are combined into three logical volumes, swap, > root, and /home. > > Issue background: > I walked away from my computer and decided to enable screensaver and lock > by using the "screen lock" hot corder (sorry, forgot the KDE term). When I > came back the screen saver hadn't locked and I couldn't move the mouse > (system clock on the Task Manager hadn't moved either). I tried to recover > using various key presses, including Ctrl-Alt-F-key to open a new > terminal. Eventually I gave up and hard rebooted because nothing seemed to > work to unfreeze my system. > > Current state: > After the hard reboot, Grub loads, the kernel starts and I type in my > encryption password like normal. But it eventually dumps me into emergency > mode, asking for root password. The file system is mounted RW and all my > files seem to be there as normal. When I type 'runlevel' it says "runlevel > unknown' and an 'init 3' or 'init 5' command brings up the Fedora booting > splash screen but drops me back to the command prompt without allowing me > to login. > > What I've tried: > I checked the documentation (e.g. > here<http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/ap-rescuemode.html>) > and most of that seems to refer to grub not working, or volumes not > mounting, none of which applies to me. I checked /var/log/messages but > nothing seems to be obviously wrong in the logs. > > Any advice on what could be wrong or what to try next? > > Thanks, > Kyle > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > I think I had a like problem to this that I solved by putting the partitions on the same drive, rather than using separate ones. Richard
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