I applied, via yast online update, all the latest patches to 12.3. Now when I boot the system, I get the message ‘Loading initial ramdisk’ and then it aborts with :
initramfs unpacking failed: read error
kernal panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernal. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
PID:1,comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.7.10-1.16-desktop #1
Call Trace:
<ffffffff81004818>] dump-trace+0x88/9x300
<ffffffff8158af33>] dump_stack+0x69/0x6f
<ffffffff8158c76f>] panic+0xc5/0x1d1
<ffffffff81559e9fc>] ret_from_fork+0x7x/0xbo
If, instead of letting it boot to default, I go to advanced options and select the 3.7.10-1.1-desktop, the system will boot.
Any suggestions as to what I should do to fix this?
I updated my 12.2 installation to 12.3 about 6 months ago, hadn’t applied any patches and things were rocking along fairly well. A couple of days ago I decided to update Firefox from 19 to 24. I first tried Software Management, searched for Firefox, selected it for install, hit accept, a process screen flashed by but no actions took place. Tried it a couple of times. I then switched to Online Update, found Firefox 24 selected it and ran the update. I hadn’t realized that I had selected ALL the patches not just Firefox. When it started running and I realized what I had done I decided to let it run to get things up to date knowing there was a good chance that something would get broken. The end of the patch session called for a reboot and when I restarted that’s when I got the boot error when trying to boot 3.7.10-1.16-desktop.
I can boot 3.7.10-1.1-desktop but it is decidedly unstable. For example, if I start Chrome and try to restore the session tabs, everything shuts down and I get a new session login screen (unlike any I’ve seen before). The same thing happens when I try to get to the Settings in VirtualBox Manager. My keyboard mappings have changed, e.g. the Print Screen doesn’t start Screen Capture, I get a Print dialog if I’m in a browser window or I get the command history if I’m in Terminal.
Yes, I have a /boot partition, but it’s 156MB and is only 74% full.
I would include some screenshots, but the Insert Image function hangs.
I think my machine is hosed and a couple of options I have are to limp along with what I have until 13.1 is released in 3 weeks or reinstall 12.3 to get to a stable machine.
> Yes, I have a /boot partition, but it’s 156MB and is only 74% full.
Too small. Find out if you can erase something.
Then run “mkinitrd” and watch for error messages.
> I think my machine is hosed and a couple of options I have are to limp
> along with what I have until 13.1 is released in 3 weeks or reinstall
> 12.3 to get to a stable machine.
Another one is to use the DVD to “upgrade” to 12.3 again.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
You might be right about that. While that 156M for “/boot” is a tad small, it should have been enough for two kernels. So something else is wrong. And it could be bad sectors.
The error here indicates initrd was not found. As nrickert noted, a possible cause for this would be if /boot is on a seperate partition and if your out of space. So in addition to my last post, also paste
> The error here indicates initrd was not found. As nrickert noted, a
> possible cause for this would be if /boot is on a seperate partition and
> if your out of space. So in addition to my last post, also paste
He has already given that info.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
On 2013-10-25 00:26, DonMLewis wrote:
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> Jonathan_R;2593345 Wrote:
>> In /usr/src/linux is your kernel’s .config file. It is a hidden file
>> (notice the . infront of config). Please paste the .config file.
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> There’s no .config there.
Yes, because it is created when you build your own kernel
The running kernel publishes its own config as a pseudo file in
“/proc/config.gz”, and it contains about 6000 lines. But frankly, I
don’t know how posting that would help :-?
In any case, you would have to upload it to susepaste.org; I’m afraid
the forum will not admit a paste that large.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
