HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot!
Well I installed parted/libparted from rawhide to get version 2.3 as I was bitten by the resize bug and some other issues with the current version in Fedora 12/13. It pulled in a few dependencies and one of them broke my system, I'm thinking it was dev-mapper. On reboot LVM was able to find all 4 of my logical volumes but then the boot process fails and I get a message that I need to run e2fsck. The actual problem is that for some reason only two of my four LVs are showing in /dev/mapper... I booted System Rescue CD and it was able to mount the LVs fine and they all checked out clean. I have the following LVM layout: VG: vg-hobbes LVs: lv-root, lv-var, lv-swap VG: vg-home (whole disk VG, no dos partition) LV: lv-home Only lv-home and lv-var are showing up in /dev/mapper My plan at this point is to boot a Fedora LiveCD, mount my LVs and chroot to it. I'm hoping rpm and yum will work properly from a chroot'ed environment. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Richard -- 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
Re: HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot!
On 30/07/10 06:22, Richard Shaw wrote: > My plan at this point is to boot a Fedora LiveCD, mount my LVs and > chroot to it. I'm hoping rpm and yum will work properly from a > chroot'ed environment. Ensure your rescuecd is of similar vintage, if not same kernel version and for the same architecture as your installed system. Let it get an IP address, and mount your drives. chroot /mnt/sysimage (as it reminds you). Then it definitely works; you are running from the in memory kernel from the rescue cd, but every app/tool you try to access is from the installed system, and changes affect the installed system. -- 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
Re: HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot!
On 30/07/10 07:38, David Timms wrote: > On 30/07/10 06:22, Richard Shaw wrote: ... > Then it definitely works; you are running from the in memory kernel from > the rescue cd, but every app/tool you try to access is from the > installed system, and changes affect the installed system. ps: is it missing a dracut built /boot/initramfs..img for the kernel version you are trying to run ? That can be solved by ensuring you have an older kernel installed and running, and uninstall / reinstall the current kernel. -- 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
Re: HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot!
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:44 PM, David Timms wrote: > ps: is it missing a dracut built /boot/initramfs..img for the kernel > version you are trying to run ? > > That can be solved by ensuring you have an older kernel installed and > running, and uninstall / reinstall the current kernel. Nope, I tried booting all 3 kernels in /boot. Same problem. It's definitely one of the rawhide packages. Also, since System Rescue CD worked and it's not even Fedora based a kernel issue would be unlikely. Richard -- 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
Re: HELP! Installed some rawhide packages and now system will not boot! [SOLVED]
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Well I installed parted/libparted from rawhide to get version 2.3 as I > was bitten by the resize bug and some other issues with the current > version in Fedora 12/13. It pulled in a few dependencies and one of > them broke my system, I'm thinking it was dev-mapper. > > On reboot LVM was able to find all 4 of my logical volumes but then > the boot process fails and I get a message that I need to run e2fsck. > The actual problem is that for some reason only two of my four LVs are > showing in /dev/mapper... I booted System Rescue CD and it was able to > mount the LVs fine and they all checked out clean. > > I have the following LVM layout: > > VG: vg-hobbes > LVs: lv-root, lv-var, lv-swap > > VG: vg-home (whole disk VG, no dos partition) > LV: lv-home > > Only lv-home and lv-var are showing up in /dev/mapper > > My plan at this point is to boot a Fedora LiveCD, mount my LVs and > chroot to it. I'm hoping rpm and yum will work properly from a > chroot'ed environment. The short version is the chroot worked. For those of you who want to know the gory details read on: I didn't have any x86_64 boot discs handy so I ended up burning one from my desktop by booting to my System Rescue CD that I've got installed on my /boot partition, burning a F13 64bit install DVD and booting it into rescue mode. After that I: - chroot'd to /mnt/sysimage which rescue mode automatically mounts your existing file system. If you don't use a Rescue mode you'll have to do that part manually. - figured out what the offending packages were by 'grep fc14 /var/log/yum.log > fc14_packages.txt' - Edited the resulting file removing everything but the base package name - Did a "yum downgrade `cat fc14_packages.txt`" - (probable unnecessary steps) exited the chroot and did a 'sync' - Rebooted On the first reboot it wanted to so a selinux relabel on the whole file system. Not sure why.. but everything came up normally on the second reboot! Next time I try packages from rawhide I think I'll setup a LVM snapshot first although I think I still would have to boot to a Rescue disk or other Live system to drop the snapshot and I'm not sure if snapshot merging is available yet in Fedora. Richard Richard -- 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
