https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723073 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723073#c5 --- Comment #5 from andreas bittner <abittner@stud.fh-heilbronn.de> 2011-10-27 16:06:25 UTC --- did a few other tests with safe-mode in the grub menu, the second entry on this 12.1/rc1/x64 system. the safemode with all those many kernel bootup parameters does boot up this 12.1/rc1/x64 system. this way i can maybe provide the previous logs, or i am going to simply attach the whole var/log/ directory or some of them at least. one thing i have figured with the safe-mode: the shutdown is very error-prone, and takes very long, at some time during the shutdown cycle after the kdm and gfx stuff is already gone and 12.1 displays those services being shutdown and so on, the whole thing comes to a stall and not much happens. at that point in time even with the ps2-keyboard and ctrl+alt+del only produces three error lines at a time right on the console alt+f1 screen or so, telling me about /dev/disk/by-id..... or dev-disk-guid..... and partitions or so errors, and eventually after quite a number of minutes the system manages to continue with the shutdown/reboot and print out some more services and status lines and even manages to reboot then. something is wrong even in this safe-mode, but i wonder where i should start hunting for the bug, most likely its some race condition of some of the devices and kernel parts or so, these shutdown problems and ctrl+alt+del might hint so. can anyone repro a clean 11.4/x64 and then directly upgrading it to 12.1/beta1 or 12.1/rc1? often i wonder why i am the one coming across these types of bugs and behaviors, one can get paranoid or really annoyed that doing supposedly easy and simple basic tasks such as upgrading a fresh current version to the latest to-be-released-version or even when it has been released, comes up with these kind of massive and barely circumventable kind of bugs :((((( regards. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.