On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 4:19 PM Brian Reichert <reich...@numachi.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 08:02:00AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > >>> Brian Reichert <reich...@numachi.com> schrieb am 10.11.2022 um > 23:04 in > > Nachricht <20221110220426.ga17...@numachi.com>: > > > I've managed to hose a SLES12 SP5 host; it starts to boot, then hangs. > > > > And what did you do to mess it up? And what do the boot messages say? > > A good question, and not specific to systemd, so I don't want to > pollute the list archives too much on this matter. > > 'All' I did was remove many RPMs that I arbitrarily deemed > unnecessary. > > I came up with a heavily trimmed-down list of SLES RPM for my SLES12 > Sp5 environment. > > I successfully installed a server using just that trimmed-down list; > yay me! > > I then explored 'upgrading' a running (slight older) SP5 box, using > this trimmed-down list. A purposeful side effect was to uninstall > RPMs not in that trimmed-down list. > > This latter box begins to boot, and gets at least as far as loading > the initrd image, before hanging. > Boot with "systemd.debug-shell" and use tty9 to investigate from the inside. -- Mantas Mikulėnas
