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@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mhdominguez@comcast.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13 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 -- 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.