Can't boot 5.8.2-1

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Just updated to 5.8.2-1.

Grub menu as expected.

Grub console wibbles about diskfilter writes not allowed (or something similar).

I then get a screen where something wibbles about failing to create a virtual terminal (it think it always says that but gets blanked by plymouth before I can read it), says something about dracut requiring parameters, and offers me a login prompt, which doesn’t allow me to log in.

I don’t know where to start with this one. Is it something I’m going to be able to fix locally, or should I just keep running the old kernel until help arrives in the form of an update?

Any advice on how to proceed would be very welcome.

Tony

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You should be able to boot the previous kernel (the “advanced options” menu line).

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Yep, am doing that, the question is: is this a problem that I can fix, or should I wait for an update?

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Hi
At Grub, select your 5.8.2 kernel and press the e key to edit, use the arrow keys to get to the end of the linx or linuxefi line and add the following to disable plymouth temporarily;


plymouth.enable=0

Then press F10 to boot, press the esc key to see more messages. Are you using the nvidia driver?

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not nvidia.
Did that. No Joy.
Not much more in the way of messages when pressing esc:
the exact messages I see after the boot screen are:

2.5144463] systemd[1]: Failed to start Setup Virtual Console
[FAILED] Failed to start Setup Virtual Console
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for dracut ask for additional cmdline parameters.
*[FAILED] Failed to start Setup Virtual Console
**[FAILED] Failed to stare Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon.

Welcome to openSUSE Tumbleweed 28(numbers illegible in my notes) - Kernel 5.8.2-1-default (tty1).

laptop4k login:

Not of which leaves me any the wiser :frowning:

Need to go to bed now: it’s 4a.m. here. Will try again tmrw.

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This thread subject says “can’t boot” but you are booted up to login prompt, just not in graphical mode. Can you login now?

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No… Perhaps I should have restated what I said in my initial post: that login prompt doesn’t work.

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Hi
Or your keyboard isn’t working to type in? You need to be a bit more verbose sometimes :wink: If the keyboard is not working, can you connect another one to test? If it’s not accepting your username/password, is it possible to see if you can ssh to it from another computer?

From memory, the virtual console error was related to a font issue, maybe that’s why you see funky characters?


cat /etc/vconsole.conf
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The keyboard worked fine: when I typed in ‘root’ and pressed return, instead of a passwd prompt, I got ‘Invalid Login’ (or similar).

HOWEVER, I now have this FIXED!.
I basically hit it with a bigger hammer. Running the old kernel, I replaced my custom Plymouth theme (just in case, though I don’t expect that was the issue: it was just edited artwork from an old Tumbleweed theme), and performed a forced update. Rebooted successfully and reinstated my Plymouth theme.

So basically just a borked update.

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Hi
Sounds like initrd didn’t rebuild with your plymouth theme… Do you have a dracut file for this? I don’t run plymouth, another thing that is disabled here [system boots in less the 7 seconds…] :wink: