https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891168 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891168#c0 Summary: Device names are changing dynamically, making the system disappear. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 201408* Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nrickert@ameritech.net QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Today, I installed snapshot 20140807 using live media. My install was to an external drive. If I have booted from the internal drive, then the devices are: /dev/sda internal drive /dev/sdb through /dev/sde - memory card reader slots (usually no memory installed) /dev/sdf first USB drive /dev/sdf second USB drive. During install, booted from live media (live KDE 20140807, and the live Gnome described in factory mailing list message "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2014-08/msg00048.html" the install media was on a USB. /dev/sda internal hard drive /dev/sdb installation USB live media /dev/sdc through /dev/sdf memory card reader slots /dev/sdg the 80G external drive, to which I was installing. On two install attempts - first with that Gnome media, second with KDE, the install seemed to hang at about the time that it have finished copying the root file system. With the Gnome install, I saw popups about an inserted drive. And the system was in a hard hang. With the KDE install, there was eventually a message about copy failure. Whenn I checked "/dev/sdg" no longer existed. The device now appeared to be "/dev/sdh". The system still showed "/dev/sdg1" and "/dev/sdg3" as mounted, but the device files did not exist. Power off was the only way I could shutdown. A third try got me installed with the live KDE. After reboot, the devices were: /dev/sda internal hard drive /dev/sdb external drive to which I had installed /dev/sdc through /dev/sdf - memory card slots. After the final stages of install (which had errors), I started having "command not found" errors. It was very difficult to investigate, since the basic shell commands were not available. I did: cd /dev echo sd? And that showed: sda sdc sdd sde sdf sdg So it looks as if what was "/dev/sdb" at boot had become "/dev/sdg" I powered off, rebooted. This happened twice more. --------- My previous install on this external drive was 20140721, installed with 64bit DVD. I did not have any problems with that. It is possible that my external drive is suddenly failing. I don't see any other symptoms of disk failure. I guess I could install 13.1 or 20140721 and see if the problem still occurs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- 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.