Bug 414206

Summary:	freeze while unpacking kernel update to 2.6.25.11
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component:	Update Problems	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jeffm
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	357354
Attachments:	boot messages from the reboot after the crash.

Description Juergen Weigert 2008-08-03 22:41:29 UTC

Today online-update downloaded a kernel update. during the update, the system froze. No mouse movement, no capslock-led.
After a reboot, the system could no longer boot into runlevel 5, several services failed due to missing modules.

Final portion of zypper.log:
2008-08-03 18:53:15 <1> linux-xuvg(10565) [zypp] PackageProvider.cc(providePackage):116 provided Package (34464)kernel-pae-2.6.25.11-0.1.i586(openSUSE-11.0-Updates) at /var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-11.0-Updates/rpm/i586/kernel-pae-2.6.25.11-0.1.i586.rpm
2008-08-03 18:53:15 <1> linux-xuvg(10565) [zypp] RpmDb.cc(doInstallPackage):1974 RpmDb::installPackage(/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-11.0-Updates/rpm/i586/kernel-pae-2.6.25.11-0.1.i586.rpm,12)
2008-08-03 18:53:15 <0> linux-xuvg(10565) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):154 Executing 'rpm' '--root' '/' '--dbpath' '/var/lib/rpm' '-U' '--percent' '--force' '--nodeps' '--' '/var/cache/zypp/packages/openSUSE-11.0-Updates/rpm/i586/kernel-pae-2.6.25.11-0.1.i586.rpm'
2008-08-03 18:53:15 <0> linux-xuvg(10565) [zypp] ExternalProgram.cc(start_program):298 pid 14631 launched


I have little hints for the cause of the freeze. The only odd thing is, that 
/lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-pae/modules.dep was missing afterwards.
Maybe this is due to a corrupted filesystem (crash while writing in /lib/modules) or this indicates that the update messed with 2.6.25.9 modules while adding 2.6.25.11 modules.

I am runing the machine from a different partition now. Except for the first reboot, this root partition should be unchanged.

I am mainly interested to find out, if this was a random crash, or if this is an issue in the kernel update procedures. 

Is there any more diagnostics I could provide?

Comment 1 Juergen Weigert 2008-08-03 22:46:57 UTC

$ cd /data2     # where this root is now mounted
$ ls -l lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-pae/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2008-07-09 19:34 source -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.9-0.2
$

Ouch, no modules there ...

Comment 2 Juergen Weigert 2008-08-03 22:49:29 UTC

Created attachment 231420 [details]
boot messages from the reboot after the crash.

Comment 3 Juergen Weigert 2008-08-05 08:16:34 UTC

May be related to bug#405546

Comment 4 Jeff Mahoney 2008-08-08 18:28:02 UTC

Well to test if it's a file system problem, have you run fsck on it yet?

Otherwise, if you're experiencing crashes otherwise, it's probably unrelated to the update process itself. Your best bet is to download the kernel update manually (or just reinstall the old one and redo the update) on the old partition.

Comment 5 Juergen Weigert 2008-08-11 15:21:20 UTC

Next reboot into this partition did another fsck. 
Thereafter it happily boots into 2.6.25.11 
no unspecific crashes.

Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2008-11-10 20:28:58 UTC

The requested information has not been provided for more than 4 weeks.
The bug gets therefore closed as NORESPONSE.

Please reopen the bug if the bug still exists in the current beta3 and
you can supply the requested information.