[Mageia-discuss] Booting into safe mode -- not working

Morgan Leijström fri at tribun.eu
Mon Jun 25 10:16:49 CEST 2012


måndagen den 25 juni 2012 09.30.26 skrev  Doug Laidlaw:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:28:57 -0400
> 
> Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
> > Hi Doug,
> > 
> > Le 2012-06-25 01:20, Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:04:40 -0400
> > > 
> > > Marc Paré<marc at marcpare.com>  wrote:
> > >> I was in the process of working out problems with a friend of mine
> > >> who had trouble with her config files and I wanted to boot into
> > >> "safe mode" to walk her through "drakconf".
> > >> 
> > >> When I tried to boot into safe mode it stopped at "Failed to issue
> > >> method call: Transaction is destructive". My box still boots fine
> > >> into regular mode but won't in safe mode. What is curious also, is
> > >> that I have another box that I am repairing for someone and it does
> > >> the same thing, it won't boot into safe mode. However, I tried it
> > >> on laptop and it does boot into safe mode. Weird.
> > >> 
> > >> Anyway, any ideas on how I could get safe mode to work properly
> > >> again? I took a camera shot of the monitor and the output on the
> > >> last page of booting up into safe mode where it died[1].
> > >> 
> > >> NOTE: all systems are running Mageia2
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks for any help.
> > >> 
> > >> Marc
> > >> 
> > >> [1] http://www.parentreprise.com/images/Mageia/Photo0137.jpg
> > > 
> > > It looks as though you aren't the only one:
> > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266172 and the bug
> > > report quoted there may be of some help.  Note that Fedora uses lvm
> > > by default.  There are other reports in Google as well.
> > > 
> > > HTH,
> > > 
> > > Doug.
> > 
> > Thanks for the note.
> > 
> > This is really not what I am experiencing, although perhaps having
> > shared folders may be the cause of the problem. I don't imagine that
> > if my system were not to be able to boot in normal mode that I would
> > have the tools on me to fix the problem as I would be unable to boot
> > into any safe mode.
> > 
> > Our Mageia2 systems should be able to boot, at the very least, into
> > safe mode, regardless of any prior configurations. I have 2 boxes
> > where booting in safe mode is not possible.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Marc
> 
> I just rebooted mine into Cauldron as a test.  At the Cauldron
> bootloader screen, I selected "failsafe."
> 
> Everything booted OK and I got a prompt saying "Welcome to rescue
> mode."  I don't know if that is the normal result
> for single user, but a few lines above, it said it was "Reconfiguring at
> administrator request," and called a single user config.    It would
> seem that your problem doesn't arise for everybody (Wouldn't it!)
> 
> Doug.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5381 ?

-- 
Morgan Leijström


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