Locked up boot after failed update

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>
>> Boot the machine with a rescue mode cd or other Live cd and fsck the 
>> partitions in the install, then try booting it again.
>>
> 
> Thanks! I could not find a boot disk to try. The parameter I was looking 
> for is init=bin/sh which got me into the system.
> 
> JIm
> 

Two problems other than finding out how to bypass init on boot were 
encountered. Mounting other filesystems manualy was no problem for /boot 
/home.
Read-only / filesystem:
Had to run
mount -d -o remount,rw /dev/sda6 /
to get read-write access to the root filesystem

Had to run /usr/sbin/setenforce 0
Before I was able to install rpms without the 255 %post scriplet errors.

Then it was successful to rpm -Uvh all except kernel rpms left in cache. 
The system would reboot afterward without locking up at unmounting old/sys

The bad thing the next upgrade reinstalled all the same rpms the next 
time it was run. A package named imsettings remained as multiple arch 
and needed removed with --noscripts --justdb.

Also the ati driver gave a blank screen only. I changed it to vesa for now.

Does anyone know what caused X to fail and kill the current sessions?

Jim

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