I just put a new install of Fedora 20 (yes, I know it’s still beta) on a brand-new Western Digital 2T drive, and it boots into emergency mode. Here’s the final output of journalctl -xb:
[Update in the afternoon]
For anyone who’s interested, here is the output of of ‘journalctl -xb’ and here is dmesg.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Whoa! Now that I look through that enire output of journalctl, I see a lot of file system errors on the /home partition. Guess I’ll run e2fsck and see if that fixes it.
[Update a while later]
Welp, that was the problem. I ended up just doing a reinstall, and let Fedora decide how to partition. I’m not real happy with it, because I’m not sure that fifty gig is ultimately big enough for root and I don’t want to have to resize later, but at least it’s working now.
Nov 22 09:38:32 new-host-2.home sedispatch[707]: Connection Error (Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory): AVC Will be dropped
Nov 22 09:38:32 new-host-2.home sedispatch[707]: Connection Error (Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory): AVC Will be dropped
Nov 22 09:39:01 new-host-2.home systemd[1]: Starting Stop Read-Ahead Data Collection… — Subject: Unit systemd-readahead-done.service has begun with start-up
— Defined-By: systemd
— Unit systemd-readahead-done.service has begun starting up.
Nov 22 09:39:01 new-host-2.home systemd[1]: Started Stop Read-Ahead Data Collection. — Subject: Unit systemd-readahead-done.service has finished start-up
— Defined-By: systemd
— Unit systemd-readahead-done.service has finished starting up.
— The start-up result is done.
Nov 22 09:39:22 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: USB disconnect, device number 3
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: new low-speed USB device number 6 using ohci-pci
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=093a, idProduct=2510
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: Product: USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: Manufacturer: PIXART
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: input: PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.0/input/input16
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home kernel: hid-generic 0003:093A:2510.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input0
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home mtp-probe[739]: checking bus 4, device 6: “/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb4/4-3”
Nov 22 09:39:24 new-host-2.home mtp-probe[739]: bus: 4, device: 6 was not an MTP device
Nov 22 09:39:47 new-host-2.home kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-2): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
Nov 22 09:39:47 new-host-2.home kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Nov 22 09:39:47 new-host-2.home kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev dm-2, type ext4), uses xattr
Nov 22 09:40:24 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: USB disconnect, device number 6
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: new low-speed USB device number 7 using ohci-pci
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=093a, idProduct=2510
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: Product: USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: usb 4-3: Manufacturer: PIXART
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: input: PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.0/input/input17
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home kernel: hid-generic 0003:093A:2510.0003: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input0
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home mtp-probe[756]: checking bus 4, device 7: “/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb4/4-3”
Nov 22 09:40:25 new-host-2.home mtp-probe[756]: bus: 4, device: 7 was not an MTP device
Are those connection errors the problem? What’s causing them?
Note, I had previously successfully installed Fedora 20 on this machine with a different drive, which died unceremoniously, so the only change is the (new) hard drive. I also tried wiping the /boot and / on the disk and reinstalling, with same results.
sedispatch is trying to send an selinux message there at the top of your logfile, but can’t find the dbus socket, so just drops it. The rest of the messages appear to be an MTP probe, iterating through all your USB connected devices looking for playable media and not finding any media capable devices and leaving them alone. dbus isn’t running, which you probably need for any xorg stuff.
If I show you the entire output can we figure out why dbus isn’t running?
Here’s the first reference to dbus:
That’s just showing a socket error, you’ll have to go back further. Try looking at /var/log/dmesg, or just “dmesg” at a command prompt to see what was happening during boot.