Stuck in "Starting Switch Root" and d-bus fails to start

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Hi,

I installed F34 (after a F33->F34 upgrade failure) and set up everything I needed on the first boot. However after re-booting a second time, the boot screen got stuck for about 2 minutes under Starting Switch Root until init sendt a SIGTERM. Under journalctl I see that d-bus fails to start, but it’s not clear why.

When starting under single mode everything “works” fine: After the folowing message

Cannot apen access to console, the root account is locked.

There’s a switch to the default target and then I get the GDM login screeen.

Additional notes:

  • NVIDIA GPU, using drivers from rpmfusion.
  • Secure boot enabled. I have a additional script that signs the NVIDIA driver.
  • Switching to the nouveau driver doesn’t fix the issue.

Any help with further debugging or fixing this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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So do you get a root terminal?

If so, you should try to fix the update.

Have a look here:

So I’d try first to rebuild the rpm database and after that a distro-sync.

dnf distro-sync

if this alone does not work:

dnf distro-sync --allowerasing

You may need sudo.

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I was not able to get a root terminal so I had to do a clean install of F34. The issues above came with the fresh install. Thanks for the info though.

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Your journalctl link seems to be broken so it’s hard to tell, but it sounds like you could be encountering this dracut issue which can occur if you have a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard/something connected to your computer. There are some tips on disabling the new dracut Bluetooth support in that issue. Are you able to add the omit_dracutmodules line and run dracut -f successfully in single user mode?

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Oh, I do have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard connected. I will try the pointers. Thanks for the tip!

For reference, I updated the journalctl link.

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Yep, this did the trick: disabling bluetooth in dracut as mentioned in your link did it. Thanks a lot for the help!

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Great, good to hear it worked. :slightly_smiling_face:

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