[Techtalk] still fedup after fedora upgrade

[Meryll Larkin]

Thanks Wim,

I apologize for going silent, the work week has started and I've got lots of
fun challenges there too.

THIS HELPED.  I did have the same problem.  I also have other problems....
but this one was the worst.  
http://www.rkrishardy.com/2013/06/fedora-boot-fails-with-unit-basic-target-m
ay-be-requested-by-dependency-only/

I was afraid to remove those left over kernel image files because everything
looks so different from what I'm accustomed to seeing.  I used to remove old
kernel images from the /boot directory, but when I did so, I always did a
"uname" first and was able to identify the old kernel files by release
number.  So it was easy to do something like:
    rm *-29-*
and be confident I wasn't removing anything I needed!  But there was no
naming convention pattern to these files, and that made me nervous that I
might be removing the wrong file.

I have plenty to rebuild (my destroyed database - won't be too difficult as
I've ported to Maria once before), learn new stuff (Maria DB, systemctl,
firewalld), and some stuff to learn how to revert to what was working just
fine in the older versions (maybe iptables, Gnome-classic).  It should keep
me busy for a while.    
My priorities are to
1.  get a boot sequence that I don't have to babysit (so if the power goes
off when I'm away and comes back on, I'll have my ssh server back). 
   I'm still  not quite there yet.
2.  Figure out if I dislike firewalld only a little or a lot and configure
my network to automatically restart the way it is supposed to (with
firewalling and some ports enabled and filtered).
3.  Port my database exports (backups) to Maria.
4.  Get Gnome2 to look/act as much like Gnome Classic as possible or find
another desktop with text menus (get rid of those nasty icons that take up
too much realestate), and 11 or so desktops to switch to that can be named
for what I'm doing on them.  Oh yeah, and get rid of airplane mode.

Give me a choice between configurable and convenience and I'll pick
configurable 80% of the time.  Take away my option to configure and I will
not appreciate the "convenience".  How come I'm stuck with new services I've
never seen before, new error messages I've never seen before and no man
pages for them?  What happened to the man pages?

Anyway, thanks so much.  I feel less stuck now.  If I have more issues I
can't handle on my own I'll write again.


Meryll








-----Original Message-----
From: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org [mailto:techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org]
On Behalf Of Wim De Smet
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 11:23 PM
To: Meryll Larkin
Cc: linuxchix tech
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] still fedup after fedora upgrade

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Meryll Larkin <mll at alwanza.com> wrote:

> Thanks to both Wim and A. Mani for responding.
>
> I just issued the
>  grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> command again, see below
> Maybe now I'll find something in the logs because I am now in a worse
> place.
> There were 2 choices in the first menu
>    Fedora
>    Advanced Options...
> So of course I let it auto-accept Fedora  which booted all the way to :
>
>     Welcome to rescue mode!  Type "systemctl default" or ^D to enter into
> default mode.
>     Type  "journalctl  -xb" to view system logs.  Type "systemctl reboot"
> to
> reboot.
>     Failed to issue method call:  Operation refused, unit basic.target may
> be requested by dependency only.
>

Would this blog post be of help to you?
http://www.rkrishardy.com/2013/06/fedora-boot-fails-with-unit-basic-target-m
ay-be-requested-by-dependency-only/

He claims the fedora upgrade left old kernel image files behind
in /boot/vmlinuz-fedup and /boot/initramfs-fedup.img. It sounds consistent
with your problem when nothing wants to boot. Before you remove (or move)
those, make sure you actually have another kernel installed! (check
/boot/vmlinuz*). It sounds consistent with your problem anyway, although
don't really see how the upgrade could get it so wrong. (if your keyboard
doesn't work, you'll obviously have to do this from the live CD of course)

Wim
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