Comment # 6 on bug 1194412 from John Shand

(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #5)
> Could you clarify what you mean with "kpartx configuration"?
> There's no indication of kpartx being involved in the logs you provided.
> 
> Was it maybe the generation of the initramfs?
> 
> It's generally recommended to switch to a text console when doing
> large-scale updates with "zypper dup".

oh i never thought of going into a new tty in text mode when big updates were
needed.  thanks.  maybe this is a dud error report.  i shall close it