First it said it could not find ext4. Then it could not connect to the cases. I had to remove all the drives and comment them out in /etc/fstab. See screen shots for error messages.
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This is a BUG!
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I just booted up with an external USB drive plugged in (but there is no “fstab” entry).
Bootup was fine. The messages related to the external drive were the familiar ones. No signs of a problem.
Your problem seems to be peculiar to your particular hardware.
Maybe open a bug report about it.
I’m having problems too with 4.12.14-lp150.12.28-default.
At shut down, the screen goes black and I hear two or three beeps; then, after about one minute, the computer turns off.
At the next boot up, 50% of the times I get a kernel panic; this happens when Leap 15 tries to switch from text mode to graphics mode. The screen flashes and the Caps Lock led blinks.
Never had problems with previous kernel versions on Leap 15.
Using what hardware? Show us output from
inxi -bxx
run from an Xterm or Konsole. (You may not have inxi already installed, so install it if not found.)
At shut down, the screen goes black and I hear two or three beeps; then, after about one minute, the computer turns off.
At the next boot up, 50% of the times I get a kernel panic; this happens when Leap 15 tries to switch from text mode to graphics mode. The screen flashes and the Caps Lock led blinks.
There are things you can do to provide clues to what’s failing. You may be able to see a clue on a successful boot by doing
journalctl -b -1 | grep ailed
If that’s not enough, try next disabling the graphic boot screen, and enabling boot messages. At the Grub menu, strike the e key, then find the line with /vmlinuz on it, remove quiet and splash=silent, append
plymouth.enable=0
to the end of that line, reboot, and report back your findings and the output from
journalctl -b | grep ailed
You can still boot the previous kernel from the GRUB menu, unless you changed the default configs.
inxi -bxx
System: Host: linux-103c Kernel: 4.12.14-lp150.12.28-default x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.6 (Qt 5.9.4) dm: sddm,sddm
Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.0
Machine: Device: desktop System: HP Pavilion 061 product: RA948AA-ABZ t3540.it v: 0nF0211RE101NODUM00 serial: CZX6359XXD IT630
Mobo: ASUSTek model: NODUSM v: 1.03 serial: MS1C67S19902476
BIOS: Phoenix v: 3.07 date: 08/02/2006
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (-MCP-) arch: K8 rev.F+
speed/max: 1000/2200 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:06e4
Display Server: x11 (X.org 1.19.6 ) driver: nvidia
tty size: 90x26 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet Controller
driver: forcedeth port: c800 bus-ID: 00:14.0 chip-ID: 10de:0269
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR5413/AR5414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5006X(S) 802.11abg]
driver: ath5k bus-ID: 03:09.0 chip-ID: 168c:001b
Drives: HDD Total Size: 300.1GB (10.1% used)
Info: Processes: 171 Uptime: 2:22 Memory: 2276.1/3938.3MB
Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 5 default: graphical.target Gcc sys: 7.3.1
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.231 running in konsole) inxi: 2.3.40
# inxi -bxx
System: Host: g5eas Kernel: 4.12.14-lp150.12.28-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.1
Desktop: Trinity R14.0.5 tk: Qt 3.5.0 wm: Twin dm: TDM Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.0
Machine: Type: Other-vm? System: GIGABYTE product: R115 v: Revision A serial: 012345678912 Chassis: type: 1
serial: N/A
Mobo: GIGABYTE model: R115 serial: 000000000000 BIOS: Phoenix v: F8 date: 10/11/2006
CPU: Single Core: Intel Pentium 4 type: MT arch: Netburst Presler speed: 1200 MHz min/max: 1200/1600 MHz
Graphics: Device-1: XGI Z7/Z9 vendor: Gigabyte driver: xgifb v: kernel bus ID: 0a:03.0 chip ID: 18ca:0020
Device-2: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.0
chip ID: 10de:06e4
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv,nvidia
resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.2 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Info: Processes: 175 Uptime: N/A Memory: 1.94 GiB used: 279.3 MiB (14.1%) Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 5
target: multi-user.target Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 running in: konsole inxi: 3.0.29
# inxi -Gxx
Graphics: Device-1: XGI Z7/Z9 vendor: Gigabyte driver: xgifb v: kernel bus ID: 0a:03.0 chip ID: 18ca:0020
Device-2: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.0
chip ID: 10de:06e4
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv,nvidia
resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.2 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Same gfxcard works fine here with either FOSS X driver. Maybe try uninstalling the NVidia driver first. If that doesn’t work, try logging into an IceWM session instead of Plasma to see whether to blame Plasma or SDDM.