https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=246772 Summary: bootloader configuration hangs on initialization Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 1 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: tilman@imap.cc QAContact: jsrain@novell.com After starting the bootloader configuration in YaST2, in the window "Initializing Boot Loader Configuration", the stages "Check boot loader" and "read partitioning" are quickly checked off. The third stage, "Load boot loader settings", proceeds to 66% and then hangs. According to this output from "ps axf": 17057 ? Sl 0:00 gnomesu -- /sbin/yast2 17058 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/libgnomesu/gnomesu-pam-backend 16 15 root /sbin/yast2 17065 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 17097 ? Sl 0:01 \_ /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base menu qt 17390 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base menu qt 17391 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base menu qt 17392 ? S 0:00 \_ sh -c /sbin/yast2 bootloader

&2 17393 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /sbin/yast2 bootloader 17424 ? Rl 19:22 \_ /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base bootloader qt 17441 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/evms_access --log-path /var/log/YaST2 --log-file y2log --socket /var/lib/YaST2/socket_libstorage_evms --timeout 3000 --retry

it would appear that it hangs in /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/evms_access, so I assume this has to do with the somewhat particular partition setup of this machine: - two SATA disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - sda carries an LVM installation of openSUSE 10.2 retail (which doesn't work properly so far, but that's a different story) - sdb carries the test installation of openSUSE 10.3 alpha 1 in a single non-LVM partition Partition layout: ts@xenon:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 65 9729 77634112+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb2 263 1568 10490445 83 Linux ts@xenon:~> sudo /sbin/lvscan ACTIVE '/dev/system/home' [10.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/root' [10.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/swap' [1.91 GB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/system/var' [5.00 GB] inherit ts@xenon:~> mount /dev/sdb2 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) /dev/sr0 on /media/SU103Alp.001 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000) ts@xenon:~> HTH Tilman -- 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, or are watching someone who is.