Fedora 34 boot stuck at start job is running for /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap

[antiv (Ivan Antonijevic)]

After update kernel to 5.11.11-300 boot stuck at start job is running for /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap and start job is running for /dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root

5.11.10-300 works fine.

I use 34 beta release

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Please add this feedback to

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-41fb54ae9f

along with some basic description of your hardware and filesystem layout.

[bnater]

I’m hitting the same issue after upgrade from f33 to f34 but also with 5.11.10-300.fc34 and other remaining kernels on my system - 5.11.11-200.fc33 and 5.11.10-200.f33. I’m only able to boot to rescue mode with 5.3.7-301.fc31

[rl (Ryan)]

Looks like it’s caused by dracut-0.53, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945596

The only fix atm is downgrade to dracut-0.51 and reinstall the kernel.

edit - the following steps worked for me.

Boot with a working kernel (any f33 one should work)
Apply the fix from here: fix(network-manager): no default deps for nm-run.service · dracutdevs/dracut@ba4bcf5 · GitHub
The full filepath is /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/35network-manager/nm-run.service

Then run the commands:

sudo dnf remove *5.11.11-300*
sudo dnf update
reboot

[antiv (Ivan Antonijevic)]

I can confirm that this solution works

Thanks @rl

[fprumbau (Frank Prumbaum)]

Just tried to upgrade 33 to 34 after reading an article about v34 just being released.

After issuing a sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot the system finally booted to the alternating “start job is running for /dev/mapper/fedora-swap/-root”.

Does someone have a tip for me as to how to boot to a prior kernel without boot menu?

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Hold down shift while booting to get the boot menu.

[lehrenfried (leonarde)]

The latest version if dracut from the fedora repos fixes this, correct?

[christian-nils (Christian-Nils Boda)]

It was the same for me. I could only access the rescue mode. But @rl 's solution works as well via the rescue mode. I installed manually dracut 0.53-2 also, but I am not sure it was necessary. After adding the DefaultDependencies=no line and regenerating the initramfs (dracut --force /boot/initramfs-5.11.11-300.fc34.x86_64.img 5.11.11-300.fc34.x86_64), it worked.