On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Pedro Francisco
<pedrogfrancisco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jurgen Kramer <gtmkramer(a)xs4all.nl>
wrote:
>>> I am getting frequent kernel panics when shutting down my laptop. It is
>>> running the latest F17 with all updates.
>>>
>>> Last messages before the panic are:
>>>
>>> Cannot finalize remaining file system and devices, giving up.
>>> Succesfully changed into root pivot.
>>> /shutdown: line 12: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file ore directory
>>> [ kernel panic ]
>>>
>>> Any ideas what's wrong here? My other F17 test rig does not exhibit
this
>>> problem.
>>
>> Best guess:
>>
>> Sounds like the system is switching back to the initramfs during
>> shutdown (normal), and then something is messed up in there and causing
>> dracut to abort. Since dracut is PID 1 at that point, the kernel is
>> unhappy because there is no init process.
>>
>> Why your initramfs is messed up would be the thing to chase.
>
> I believe I had that issue when I booted F17 using the F16 kernel. You don't
> happen to have updated using the non-supported method (
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum ) do you?
Hey, don't blame yum upgrading, if you use the F17 kernel, it's fine. :)
-J
> Just a theory, though :)
>
> --
Nah, this is on a cleanly installed F17 rc/beta updated with all the
updates. Maybe I'll try a fresh install with F17 TC3 to see if that
resolves my problem.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Jurgen