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

[Doug Laidlaw]

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.