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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

For the past couple days, my Fedora 40 install has been hanging with kernel 6.8.10-300.

For the past couple days I've been booting from kernel 6.8.9-300 as whenever I try to boot from kernel 6.8.10-300 my boot gets stuck at: Job dev-mapper-cl\x2dswap.device/start

I've been trying to figure this out on my for a bit but as Fedora is now at kernel 6.8.11 the next update may remove kernel 6.8.9 as an option to boot from and I'm afraid I won't be able to boot from my system.

If anyone knows what is wrong or could give me some advice as to how to read that message I would appreciate it very much.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That reads like it's hanging trying mount a swap volume. Did any hardware change recently? Particularly like hard drive layout or something?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I haven't changed anything hardware wise and I haven't changed anything involving partitions in months.

In kernel 6.8.9 my swap mounts perfectly I don't have any idea what I should change in order to fix 6.8.10.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't think I have any great answers for you, but I have two thoughts:

  1. In my grub screen, I have 6.8.9, 6.8.10, and 6.8.11 available as choices. Does this also not work on 6.8.11 or do you only have Fedora configured to keep one old kernel version some how?
  2. If your system boots into 6.8.9 just fine, can you disable the swap volume and try 6.8.10 again? If it works, you at least know what's wrong...
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Boot your previous version and run another update.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'd like to avoid doing that as it could remove 6.8.9 as a boot option

I'll update if it's guaranteed to solve my issue.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You can pin kernel (or any package for that matter) versions so they don't get removed: https://fedoramagazine.org/boot-earlier-kernel/

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