After Update to 11.1: mount fails

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Hello,
I’ve just upgradet from a 10.2 installation to the new openSUSE 11.1. As far as I can see now, everything worked fine with one exception: At one point mount stops working.

There are already some filesystems mountet, as you see here:


hastur:~ # mount
/dev/sdb4 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)
/dev/sdb3 on /opt type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sdb2 on /var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
hastur:~ #

After a reboot, the last Message is
Starting jexec services
then it stops. X is already running on console 7, but I can not switch to console 2 - 6.
ps -afux says the following:


root      1921  0.0  0.1  11364  1636 ?        Ss 16:43   0:00 /bin/bash /etc/init.d/rc 5
root      1948  0.0  0.0   3968   780 ?        S  16:43   0:00  \_ startpar -p4 -t 30 -T 3 -S 20000:45535 -M start -P N -R 5
root      2098  0.0  0.1  11232  1488 ?        S  16:43   0:00      \_ /bin/sh /etc/init.d /jexec start
root      2120  0.0  0.0  11232   744 ?        S  16:43   0:00          \_ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/jexec start
root      2121  0.0  0.0  11232   844 ?        S  16:43   0:00              \_ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/jexec start
root      2123  0.0  0.0  12480   768 ?        D  16:43   0:00                  \_ mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

so I think here is the problem. No mount (eg. USB devices or CD/DVD) is possible. It simply hangs up.

The System is a dual core Athlon 64 with 1GB Ram.

Any idea, how I could solve this?

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Did you actually run the installation as New Install and just keep /home?

Do a su terminal

fdisk -l

indicate which in the list you need to mount

post your current
/etc/fstab

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As I wrote above, I made an upgrade, not a new install.

fdisk -l

hastur:~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb3a9b3a9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007f53a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 263 785 4200997+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 786 1438 5245222+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 * 1439 60801 476833297+ 83 Linux
hastur:~ #

This is correctly mounted, as I need it. No problem here.

post your current
/etc/fstab

/dev/sdb4 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sdb3 /opt ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /var ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

No further mount is possible.

Edit: I just disabled jexec. made a reboot, now it seems to work. So I regard this as solved, for the time being.

Thanks for your answer.

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Trouble is disk ID in 10.2 is totally different to 11.1 and 11.0 for that matter.

The old /dev/sda will work, you just need manual intervention. Good to hear you sorted it for the time being.

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Disabling jexec solved not only my inability to mount usb keys after 11.1 upgrade; but also solved not being able to mount the DVD drive and not being able to see my home folder from the gnome desktop. What is jexec for anyway?

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HansBr, I believe you and I have encountered the same problem. To make sure that this is so, let me apply your method to hopefully fix my problem. How did you disable jexec?

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Jexec seems to be part of the java runtime engine installation. I had the same problem with it. I deactivated jexec service in the runlevel editor (yast).
Upgrading from jre jre1.6.0_10 to jre1.6.0_11 (64bit version) solved this problem partially. The jexec service was activated again, but the install script of the rpm file was throwing following message: (jre-1.6.0_11-fcs.x86_64) scriptlet failed, signal 2.

Nevertheless, the system is booting now, but I can not execute Java applications. I have no idea how to install jre correctly.