Dear reader! Using the online update support YOU I updated SuSE 9.0 (after update now 2.4.21-260) because of previous ALSA problems with the shipped kernel (2.4.21-99). Now, all applications I use run fine. However, after that update I have problems during the boot sequence, and this problem occurs not during every boot. That is, 2 out of 3 times the boot is not completely successful. After some error messages (see as appended later) it is not going to runlevel 5 but falls back to runlevel 3. Under runlevel 3 then I can't start the x-server. (However, booting Linux with Failsafe, "startx" is working.) REMARK: Serveral boots has shown, that the error messages in "boot.msg" are varying from boot to boot. If wished, I can send by e-mail two complete boot.msg after two faulty boot. If anybody knows this problem and/or has a solution, I would appreciate it. Furthermore, if somebody could tell me the differences between the Linux default boot and the Failsafe boot, I would be glad. (Or are the differences just the boot options?) Now an excerpt of the /var/log/boot.msg after running into boot problems (I marked the possible faulty places with an <-------------fault? ): [...snip...] Setting up the CMOS clock done <notice>exit status of (boot.idedma boot.clock) is (0 0) <notice>run boot scripts (boot.quota) <notice>exit status of (boot.quota) is (0) <notice>run boot scripts (boot.ldconfig) Setting up timezone datadone <notice>exit status of (boot.ldconfig) is (0) <notice>run boot scripts (boot.sched boot.localnet boot.isapnp) Setting scheduling timeslices unused Setting up hostname 'sparrow'done Setting up loopback interface done find: /tmp/ssh-*: No such file or directory <-------------fault? <notice>exit status of (boot.sched boot.localnet boot.isapnp) is (6 0 0) <notice>run boot scripts (boot.klog boot.ipconfig) Enabling syn flood protectiondone Disabling IP forwardingdone Creating /var/log/boot.msg /etc/init.d/boot.d/S12boot.klog: line 67: 708 Segmentation fault /bin/sleep 1 <-------------fault? done<notice>killproc: kill(28,29) System Boot Control: The system has been setup Skipped features: boot.sched System Boot Control: Running /etc/init.d/boot.local done<notice>exit status of (boot.klog boot.ipconfig) is (0 0) <notice>killproc: kill(28,3) <-------------fault? Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Wed Jan 5 07:03:04 2005 Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5 <notice>start services (random) [...snip...] <notice>start services (sshd fbset alsasound) <notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd) [ /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ], [ CONSO LE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=22 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUM NS=148 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=5 1 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=33 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ] Starting sound driverawk: cmd. line:1: fatal error: internal error done <-------------fault? Starting SSH daemon done <notice>exit status of (sshd fbset alsasound) is (0 0 0) <notice>start services (splash kbd cups) <notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cupsd) [ /usr/sbin/cupsd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL =/bin/sh progress=25 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=148 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbi n:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=51 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent s scripts=33 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd ] Starting cupsd done Loading keymap qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz donecupsd: Child exited on signal 11! <-------------fault? Loading compose table latin1.add done Stop Unicode mode doneLoading console font lat1-16.psfu -m none (B done [...snip...] <notice>exit status of (nscd) is (0) <notice>start services (splash_late) <notice>exit status of (splash_late) is (0) Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached <notice>killproc: kill(749,3) <-------------fault? --------------end------------------