I’ve got a laptop that suddenly decided to hang during boot (11.1, KDE3).
All was well but suddenly went south and won’t get past the problem.
Boot.msg ends on “starting service jexec”. Alt-ctl-del restarts the
machine and boot.msg (viewed from a live CD boot) shows the shutdown
process.
I’ve 4 other machines here running 11.1 and NONE OF THEM have any trace
of “jexec” - the problem child has a script jexec in init.d with K01.jexec
in each of rc2.d - rc5.d and SO1.jexec in the same rc(n).d directories.
jexec appears to be called from .depend.start and .depend.stop.
2 questions: what the heck is jexec? and how the heck can I get this box to
boot past that point? Can I just delete all the jexec scripts and remove
all references to them in the other scripts?
fsck is clean on the drive and I’mm at a loss here.
I have had this happen on two machines now myself. There’s no rhyme or reason for the crashes but it renders them completely useless. So, here’s the scenario. Comp 1 i586 - Gnome. Installed openSUSE on this machine and it worked for a total of one day and this problem occured. I could go into gnome but the cups daemon was at a status of unused and I could not access my home directory in nautilus. Comp 2 amd_64 - KDE this machine worked for roughly a week and then decided to exhibit this same problem. But it stops at jexec and then never reaches kde. I’m starting to wonder if it has something to do with apparmor but that’s just a random theory. Anyone else have some thoughts? Oh btw in order to resolve this matter the only thing I could do was to reinstall openSUSE. lol, it does seem like the stability of openSUSE really has gone by the wayside since 9.3.