F16 does not start: Started SYSV: Late init script for live image.. @

[pooly]

Hello.

After updating my F16 it won't start. The last output line is in the title and the rest is in the attachments and as Link.

Here are the screenshots.

Booting with the 4rd Option (recovery mode) i have access to a terminal which might come in handy here

I do not have network access in recovery mode and I am running F16 in VirtualBox.

I hope this is enough information. If not, ask. Ill will check this thread quiet often

Thanks in advance,

pooly

[AdamW]

if you add '3' to the kernel parameters for the regular boot option, do you get to a console? (trying to figure if the problem is with starting X).

[mdalepiane]

Hi, I'm having exactly the same problem.
I did as AdamW said and added a '3' parameter to the kernel parameters, and I got a console.

Also, if I boot up and press an arrow key to see the verbose, I can see that it stops right after the following line:
"Started SYSV: Late init script for live image.."

After this there is just a blinking underscore.

Thanks in advance,
mdalepiane

---------- Post added at 02:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 AM ----------

Alright, just got my system up again.
It happens that besides updating some software, I also had tried to chance my keyboard configuration.
After booting into prompt and using startx I found out that the problem was at /etc/X11/xorg.config, when I look into it, I found this message:

# This configuration file was broken by system-config-keyboard

Then I found some information about this bug at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638809

I ended up erasing this lines on the file:

# This configuration file was broken by system-config-keyboard

Section "ServerLayout"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

After this I was able to boot up without farther problems.

Hope it helps!
mdalepiane