Dnf update hang ... could not boot now ... pls help

andy-chung · May 24, 2025, 4:19pm

I as usual sudo dnf update today may24. there is a systemd update included. at sudo dnf update when around “running update script of systemd” the system freeze. I long press power button to shut down. boot fails now.

what could i do now? appreciate help … thanks

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could not boot to f42 desktop. could only boot to rescue (f39). grub info at below

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at rescue login root. get journalctl -b below
boot at may24 21:53
long press to power down at may24 21:57

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at rescue login as root. collected the log of sudo dnf update at may24 13:23

barryascott · May 24, 2025, 4:41pm

Where does the system get stuck?
Try booting after removing rhgb and quiet frim tge grub kernel line.

andy-chung · May 24, 2025, 5:47pm

Please see youtube below thanks

gnwiii · May 24, 2025, 6:06pm

The video is almost impossible to read on my laptop, but there does seem to be a crash. You should be able to recover the details in much more readable text using journalctl in a terminal. Text has the advantage that others with similar hardware and issues can find your topic with a web search. Linux Handbook journalctl Command can help you get started.

If you have an Live USB installer you can boot that and use journalctl in a terminal with the -D option to view journal records on the system drive.

When reporting problems, you should try to provide enough detail to allow others to reproduce the problem. You can get hardware and some software details by running inxi -Fzxx (in a Live USB environment you will have to install inxi and it will be lost at reboot) and posting the output as pre-formatted text (use the </> button from the top line of the text entry panel).

m4ss1mog · May 24, 2025, 6:08pm

From picture _224157 seems that sddm_greeter_qt hangs.
Try to disable and reboot.

andy-chung · May 24, 2025, 7:02pm

login recovery root and disable sddm

reboot then able to login my latest kernel.
get only text display no gui

checked sddm service, uname -a, sudo dnf update says no update

appreciate further advice … tks

andy-chung · May 24, 2025, 7:03pm

my previous neofetch … hardware same
I am now on F42 lxqt … mostly updated except today incident

andy@MiWiFi-RM1800-srv:~$ neofetch
.‘,;::::;,’. andy@MiWiFi-RM1800-srv
.‘;:cccccccccccc:;,. ----------------------
.;cccccccccccccccccccccc;. OS: Fedora Linux 41 (Forty One) x86_64
.:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:. Host: S550CB 1.0
.;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;. Kernel: 6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64
.:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:. Uptime: 17 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc:ccccccc:. Packages: 2119 (rpm)
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW::cccccccc, Shell: bash 5.2.32
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc: Resolution: 1366x768
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM0OOk.;cccccccccccc: DE: LXQt
cccccc:0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc; WM: Openbox
ccccc:XM0’;cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc’ Theme: Adwaita [GTK3]
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc; Icons: Adwaita [GTK3]
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd:ccccccccccccccc; Terminal: qterminal
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0::cccccccccccccc:, Terminal Font: Monospace 12
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,. CPU: Intel i7-3537U (4) @ 3.100GHz
:cccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'. GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
.:cccccccccccccccccccccc:;,.. GPU: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
'::cccccccccccccc::;,. Memory: 1869MiB / 7813MiB

gnwiii · May 24, 2025, 7:13pm

Text display allows you to use journalctl to get details of the crash.

andy-chung · May 24, 2025, 8:52pm

enclosing journalctl where sddm greeter crash… appreciate advice … tks

m4ss1mog · May 25, 2025, 2:01pm

Try to uninstall and then reinstall sddm or install gdm or install gdm

    sudo dnf install gdm (or another display manager)
    sudo systemctl enable gdm.service
    reboot

andy-chung · May 26, 2025, 7:51pm

thanks. tried gdm but boot to “a problem has occured and system cant recover. please contact a system admin”

andy-chung · May 26, 2025, 7:55pm

journalctl -b --priority err

> May 27 09:51:52 fedora kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x000000003) is beyond end of object (length 0x0) (20240827/exoparg2-393)
> May 27 09:51:52 fedora kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GFX0._DSM due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20240827/psparse-529)
> May 27 09:51:52 fedora kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20240827/psparse-529)
> May 27 09:51:52 fedora kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of 834f841f FAULT at 6013d4 [ PRIVRING ]
> May 27 01:52:06 fedora kernel: SELinux: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-kernel/wiki/DEPRECATE-runtime-disable
> May 27 01:52:06 fedora kernel: SELinux: Runtime disable is not supported, use selinux=0 on the kernel cmdline.
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of c016bf1f FAULT at 6013d4 [ PRIVRING ]
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D0: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D1: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D2: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D3: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D4: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D5: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D6: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC1D7: no AFG or MFG node found
> May 27 01:52:22 fedora kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: no codecs initialized
> May 27 01:52:26 fedora smartd[1111]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 24 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> May 27 01:52:41 fedora kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: failed to idle channel 1 [DRM]
> May 27 01:53:22 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:22 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:22 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:22 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv gnome-session-binary[1790]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
> May 27 01:53:22 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:23 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:23 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:23 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:23 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:23 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:24 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:24 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:24 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:24 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:24 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:25 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:26 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:26 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:32 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:33 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:34 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:34 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:53:47 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: failed to idle channel 0 [DRM]
> May 27 01:54:03 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv gdm[1751]: Gdm: Failed to list cached users: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Remote peer disconnected
> May 27 01:54:04 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:54:05 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:54:05 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:54:06 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:54:06 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timer: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
> May 27 01:54:04 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv dbus-broker-launch[1084]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
> May 27 01:54:04 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv dbus-broker-launch[1084]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
> May 27 01:54:04 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv dbus-broker-launch[1084]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
> May 27 01:54:04 MiWiFi-RM1800-srv dbus-broker-launch[1084]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.

andy-chung · May 26, 2025, 7:55pm

am i far away from reinstall? thanks.

m4ss1mog · May 26, 2025, 8:31pm

Have you tried to reinstall sddm before using sudo dnf reinstall sddm?
Have you disabled/removed sddm before installing gdm?

ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, indicates a problem between the kernel and the ACPI BIOS there an update for your BIOS?

Try to disable the ACPI with acpi=off on the boot parameters

You have a USB like a key or an external disk connected to the PC? Try to disconnect it

gnwiii · May 27, 2025, 11:26am

You should be able to boot a Live Installer USB and use, e.g., Gnome Disks, to check drive health. I would make backing up important data a priority.

andy-chung · May 28, 2025, 4:38am

thanks George. sad to find out that not many things of mine is important …

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