Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Makarov Fedor
> Good afternoon, > > This is an f24 system. I just (about 1pm US mountain time) completed > my > weekly "dnf upgrade", and I saw no hint of failure or trouble. But > when > I shut down the system, and then powered back up, the boot > failed. The > grub menu looked ok. The blue-and-white bar

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread stan
On Fri, 12 May 2017 02:42:56 - "William Mattison" wrote: > Good evening, > > Based on what y'all said, I'd say I'm in a "dracut shell". I cannot > reach any login whatsoever, using any of the techniques y'all > suggested. Sure sounds like it. > The directory "/usr/bin/" does not have many

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Shen-En Chen
Hi, Bill, I am not sure what causes your problem, but it does sound like your system cannot identify the root system so it cannot boot. I happened to have similar problem as you do after dnf update a few weeks ago, although slightly differently. I did have to fsck my partition before my system

Re: Can't log into Google with 2-factor authentication using GNOME Online Accounts

2017-05-11 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Please forgive the top-posting. I'm stuck in Outlook for a few days and it won't let me quote any other way. (1) Not a browser issue, this is the GNOME Online Accounts app. (2) Yes, it looks like Bug #144857. Hope to see that in updates-testing Real Soon Now. Thanks Alessio! Matthew Saltzm

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread William Mattison
Good evening, Based on what y'all said, I'd say I'm in a "dracut shell". I cannot reach any login whatsoever, using any of the techniques y'all suggested. The "/var/log/" directory is empty. There is no "/var/cache/" directory. The directory "/usr/bin/" does not have many things in it. It do

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/11/2017 04:57 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Not so. Unless I'm living in a time warp, F24 and F25 are the currently maintained versions. F23 is EOLed and F26 is in development (not to mention Rawhide, which will eventually be F27). Thank you; I sit corrected.

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 16:50 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/11/2017 04:29 PM, stan wrote: > > It is surprising that an update would cause this problem in F24, since > > it is in maintenance mode, and should be receiving only security > > updates. If you can get to a console, either by Rick's method

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/11/2017 04:29 PM, stan wrote: I think vi is there, but unless you are used to modal editors, it is confusing to use. You may find it easier to use nano if you aren't comfortable with vi. One if the nice things about it is that the most important commands are listed at the bottom of the

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/11/2017 04:29 PM, stan wrote: It is surprising that an update would cause this problem in F24, since it is in maintenance mode, and should be receiving only security updates. If you can get to a console, either by Rick's method or mine, you could also look at /var/cache/dnf.rpm.log* to see

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/11/2017 03:36 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: If you have a disk activity LED, watch it...it may be on solid or flickering really fast. That's indicative of the akmods being built and loaded. I notice this a lot if I use a nVidia blobs for my video cards and/or having the system build rescue initrd

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread stan
On Thu, 11 May 2017 15:36:07 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/11/2017 01:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 05/11/2017 01:21 PM, Bill Mattison wrote: > >> This is an f24 system. I just (about 1pm US mountain time) > >> completed my weekly "dnf upgrade", and I saw no hint of failure or > >> trou

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/11/2017 01:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/11/2017 01:21 PM, Bill Mattison wrote: >> This is an f24 system. I just (about 1pm US mountain time) completed >> my weekly "dnf upgrade", and I saw no hint of failure or trouble. But >> when I shut down the system, and then powered back up, the

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread William Mattison
All three fedora versions in the grub menu appear to yield the same results. So whatever the "dnf upgrade" did, it affected all three. The windows-7 boot still works (this is a dual boot system, a desktop). My camera died over a year ago, and I have no portable devices. Having been unemploye

Re: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/11/2017 01:21 PM, Bill Mattison wrote: This is an f24 system. I just (about 1pm US mountain time) completed my weekly "dnf upgrade", and I saw no hint of failure or trouble. But when I shut down the system, and then powered back up, the boot failed. The grub menu looked ok. The blue-a

f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-11 Thread Bill Mattison
Good afternoon, This is an f24 system. I just (about 1pm US mountain time) completed my weekly "dnf upgrade", and I saw no hint of failure or trouble. But when I shut down the system, and then powered back up, the boot failed. The grub menu looked ok. The blue-and-white bar at the bottom o