Bug 19465

Summary: Automatic and manual partitioning when installing either Mageia 5 or Cauldron ends up with a failed dependancy error during boot of any installed kernel
Product: Mageia Reporter: Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: High CC: lovaren
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: ALSO_MAGEIA5
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: Here's my dmesg output
Here's my Xorg.log
Here's the boot log

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:07:19 CEST 
Description of problem: In my Asus N550JK laptop I've for some time had trouble booting the latest installed kernel (4.7) to see the login window for GDM (which is used by default in Mageia 5 for my installation anyway) both with the automatic and the manual installation of Mageia 5. I end up in emergency mode when booting any kernel in the GRUB2 menu and pressing Ctrl D to boot default mode for Mageia 5 didn't give me any graphical login window as a result. However if I enter the root password at emergency mode and then do startx it works just fine. I tried with a new user account from emergency mode, but startx wouödn't give me any login window then either. If I switch from that user to root and do startx it works just fine. Doing journalctl -xe shows an Error code 4 on the fsck check row for the harddrive. I have been hearing some click sounds from the computer, but only when running Mageia 5, but not with Ubuntu so I'm not really sure if I have a faulty harddrive. A friend of mine told me that Toshiba have had problems with faulty harddrives in laptops, but I can't assume that this is my situation and the cause of this problem. I even installed Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 to see if any other system failed to boot due to a broken harddrive, but Windows boots just fine everytime.

I gave the EFI partition about 513 MB in size, / about 7.8 GB and /swap about 78 GB and /usr 156 GB and the rest of my harddrive to /home.

How reproducible: All the time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mageia 5 using either net-install.iso or the DVD iso.
2. Make /boot/EFI sized 513 MB.
3. Make / 7,8 GB
4. Make /swap 78 GB
5. Make /usr 156 GB
6. Give the remaining space to /home
7. Boot the latest installed kernel.
8. Voila! It will end up in emergency mode.
Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:07:57 CEST

CC: (none) => hamnisdude
Whiteboard: (none) => ALSO_MAGEIA5

Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:08:07 CEST

Priority: Normal => High

Comment 1 Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:10:24 CEST 
Created attachment 8450 [details]
Here's my dmesg output
Comment 2 Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:12:41 CEST 
Created attachment 8451 [details]
Here's my Xorg.log
Comment 3 Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:14:52 CEST 
I can't find any log file for gdm to attach inside of /var/log/.
Comment 4 Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-26 22:17:59 CEST 
Created attachment 8452 [details]
Here's the boot log
Comment 5 Kristoffer Grundström 2016-09-27 00:21:55 CEST 
If I use the Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso problem is gone so therefor I'll close this as FIXED.

Should anyone encounter this problem in the future, feel free to reopen this with new information.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED