http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592764 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592764#c0 Summary: installation hangs at "boot manager installation" - 94% Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 4 Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: tilman@imap.cc QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100204 SUSE/3.5.8-0.1.1 Firefox/3.5.8 Did an upgrade installation of openSUSE 11.3 M4 on an MSI Hermes 650 desktop PC (1,7 GHz Celeron, 768 MB RAM, 80 GB IDE HDD, SiS650 onboard graphics) which had been running openSUSE 11.2 Retail 32 bit, current on online updates, and on which I had additionally installed a vanilla release 2.6.34-rc2 kernel with the usual "make ; sudo make modules_install install" sequence, so /boot/grub/menu.lst contained, in addition to the two entries for the standard 11.2 kernel, two more entries for a kernel named "2.6.34-rc2-0.1-default". Installation went smoothly up to the "Installation of the Bootmanager" stage. Then it hung with the progress bar staying at 94%, the mouse pointer still the animated busy cursor, and the GUI unresponsive. (Tested by trying to switch tabs.) tty1 showed a screenful of identical messages: error: cannot open Package database in tty2 had a usable shell prompt. "ps axf" showed the hanging process lineage ending in (hand copied): /bin/sh /boot/perl-BL_delayed_exec /bin/bash /usr/lib/bootloader/bootloader_entry add default 2. /usr/bin/perl /sbin/update-bootloader --image /boot/vmlin sh -c ZYPP_READONLY_HACK=1 zypper -qx --no-refresh pd zypper -qx --no-refresh pd -i grep isbase="1" Killing the grep process had no effect. Killing the zypper process made the sh process exit with it, and three new processes sh, zypper, and grep appeared, identical except for their PIDs to the last three ones above. Killing the new zypper process again made the installation proceed normally. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. install openSUSE 11.2 2. install additional kernel.org kernel 3. run update installation of openSUSE 11.3 M4 Actual Results: Step "Bootloader Installation" hangs at 94%. Expected Results: Step "Bootloader Installation" completes smoothly. The resulting system boots fine. /boot/grub/menu.lst now contains six entries titled: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 - 2.6.33-6 Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 4 - 2.6.33-6 openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.34-rc2-0.1 Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.34-rc2-0.1 SUSE LINUX Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX The last two are identical, except for the title, to the first two. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.