On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:04:40 -0400 Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was in the process of working out problems with a friend of mine > who had trouble with her config files and I wanted to boot into "safe > mode" to walk her through "drakconf". > > When I tried to boot into safe mode it stopped at "Failed to issue > method call: Transaction is destructive". My box still boots fine > into regular mode but won't in safe mode. What is curious also, is > that I have another box that I am repairing for someone and it does > the same thing, it won't boot into safe mode. However, I tried it on > laptop and it does boot into safe mode. Weird. > > Anyway, any ideas on how I could get safe mode to work properly > again? I took a camera shot of the monitor and the output on the last > page of booting up into safe mode where it died[1]. > > NOTE: all systems are running Mageia2 > > Thanks for any help. > > Marc > > [1] http://www.parentreprise.com/images/Mageia/Photo0137.jpg > > It looks as though you aren't the only one: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266172 and the bug report quoted there may be of some help. Note that Fedora uses lvm by default. There are other reports in Google as well. HTH, Doug.
