Upgrading from 11.0 to 11.1, upgrade process went through without a hitch, but now when trying to boot it hangs on “Starting jexec services” or it gets past that after a long time and gets to “Starting VMware services” where it says two of the service have failed and hangs on “Blocking file system”… what gives? I can’t get it to finish booting at all. I’ve already done another upgrade today on another machine and had no problems at all.
You upgraded, how?
It sounds like kernel modules built to your old kernel are causing the issue (VMware)
You may need to recompile the VMware package against your new kernel. But much depends on how you did that.
I used the install DVD to upgrade. I didn’t even have vmware installed anymore, but apparently it’s still there. Isn’t there an option I can pass to GRUB to load only essential modules?
Can you start yast from the CLI login?
login and go su
then type
yast2
In there, go to System - Runlevel Services, then advanced
You can disable it there
then reboot
I can’t get to a login, it will not boot at all.
Try the dvd repair boot
The problem is obviously with the jexec module and the vmware module, neither of which I even need, but since OpenSuSE doesn’t have an interactive startup I have no way to get into the system and disable these two modules. I have looked and looked to see how to make changes to the init scripts on the hard drive from a live CD, but I see no way of doing it. I REALLY can’t afford to wipe and reinstall this drive.
You don’t need to wipe the drive. You can keep /home - during install do not format.
Only / (root) will be wiped. You will just have to re-install your 3rd party applications
Ok here’s how I solved this if anyone else has the same problem. I thought I would not be able to mount the drive in read/write mode from a live cd, but I booted from a Kubuntu livecd I had laying around, went to /etc/init.d/ and deleted the jexec and vmware scripts there, and voila, the system boots now.
Nice. Well done.
Thanks for posting the solution.
Hmmm… Bad news. 
I also want to do DVD upgrade, but can’t keep my /home, because it’s on the same partition with /. I hope it’ll be updated without similar problems.
Hi
sorry, but is this really the solution?
I just upgraded with the official release of 11.1
I am having the SAME problem (stuck with jexec). This should be solved in the official release as this seems like a problem many would encounter!
And if you need another distrib to access all this, then what is the point to have openSuse upgrades?
This is REALLY disappointing… Sorry to be so negative, but I mean it. (this bug was seen in RC1, so what’s going on here?!)
(by the way, due to this pb, I cannot boot, and I have to log on from another machine to post this… how ridiculous)
Had exactly the same problem - using DVD upgrade from 11.0.
Did a bit of searching from another system and saw hints to delete jexec stuff from /etc/init.d but couldn’t find anything there. (You dont need a LiveCD BTW - just use the install DVD and select Rescue option if you want to try this.)
To cut a long story short gave up and re-ran DVD except selected fresh install rather than upgrade.
One bit in my searching indicated jexec is related to Java. If so then it may be folks who get this problem had a rubbish Java (JRE) install at 11.0. I certainly did - could never get JRE to work under 11.0. As I write JRE is working fine for me under 11.1.
I’ve upgraded from 11.0 to 11.1 and I had the same problem…
On Bootscreen you can choose FailSafe… There will open a X-Server… Run as root and go to yast2. You’ve to choice the runlevel-editor and to disable jexec.
Now I’ve to fix my ATI driver Problem for the X-Window…:sarcastic: