On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:46 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> 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
have you tried to boot with Selinux in permissive mode??
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Antonio Montagnani
Fedora 17 Beta
Acer 5670
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