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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664802

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664802#c0


           Summary: hwinfo --framebuffer hangs, causing mkinitrd to fail
                    and leaving kernel update incomplete w/ failure to
                    boot
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.3
           Version: Final
          Platform: 64bit
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: YaST2
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: mhdominguez@xxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


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This happens on my particular hardware (C2D, G31, RV790 with open-source driver
radeon).  The work-around, as others have reporter, is to disable compositing,
then run the Kernel update.  Then I make sure the symlinks to vmlinuz and
initrd are good and that menu.lst is correct.

Basically, this could all be fixed if any kernel updates requested the user
suspend compositing and not continue until that was done.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compositing turned ON
2. YaST2 update kernel
3. hwinfo hangs; if on kernel update, mkinitrd cannot complete and no initrd is
created.  The system will not boot, obviously, and big trouble occurs if the
old initrd was deleted in the process.



Expected Results:  
hwinfo should complete, mkinitrd should complete, and correct symlinks should
be placed for vmlinuz and mkinitrd

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