Cannot boot into Fedora 25 while upgrading to 26

asked 2017-07-11 12:34:57 -0600

Clinton_Matsuki gravatar image

Hello guys, I make myself into deep trouble.

I have installed Fedora 25 and a few hours ago I upgraded to 26 by following the instructions provided by Fedora magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-...

However when I first rebooted the systemd showed an error message like "cannot get freq at ep 0x...". I thought my system would hang so I rebooted my PC again. After that, every time I try to boot into the Fedora 25 kernel and all I get is just a screen with 3 white square bubbles, and the screen stops just right there.

Now I have a Fedora 25 netinstall CD and a 26 Live DVD. Where do I start to rescue my Fedora? Thank you guys for any help.

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When you see those three white dots, press ESC, you'll see startup log and should find out what's currently happening.

Which steps of upgrade process have you successfully completed? "$ sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot" was interrupted by you manually resetting computer, right?

ozeszty gravatar imageozeszty ( 2017-07-11 14:21:37 -0600 )edit

Pressed ESC and within a few minutes the screen shows nothing. I did every steps including "sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot", and ya, that reboot was interrupted by me resetting the computer.

Clinton_Matsuki gravatar imageClinton_Matsuki ( 2017-07-11 14:39:36 -0600 )edit

Have you tried booting to a CLI? It's possible that whatever is hanging is only needed for a GUI.

sideburns gravatar imagesideburns ( 2017-07-11 15:51:18 -0600 )edit

cannot get freq at ep 0x..seems to be related to the audio subsystem (usb sound card a/o speakers?). On grub menu list hit e for modyfing kernel command line, find and delete rhgb and quiet and boot with Ctrl-X. You should be able to see all booting messages. Anyway if you have a separate /home partition my suggestion for a quick fix would be to reinstall Fedora.

fcomida gravatar imagefcomida ( 2017-07-11 16:07:07 -0600 )edit

Tried booting into boot level 3 with the method provided by fcomida, and I got this: [4.782720] systemd - journald[358]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1 (systemd)[4.792293] systemd: 17 output lines suppressed due to ratelimiting And the screen hangs since that. Fortunately I did have a separate /home partition, but I just don't want to give up and install F26 directly on the old / and /boot partitions yet.

Clinton_Matsuki gravatar imageClinton_Matsuki ( 2017-07-11 19:15:44 -0600 )edit
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