computer doesn't boot after update to kernel 4.14

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#1

Since Tumbleweed installed kernel 4.14 the computer doesn’t boot anymore.
Selecting the 4.14 grub boot entry is still fine. Then …

Booting `openSUSE Tumbleweed’
Loading Linux 4.14.0-1-pae …
Loading initial ramdisk …

That’s it. Nothing happens after this any more.
After about 1 min the boot cycle starts from the beginning, so it’s running in circles.

Current kernel package is kernel-pae-4.14.0-1.8. System is 32-bit.

There is no difference when selecting the corresponding Recovery boot entry.
When selecting the last kernel 4.13 grub boot entry the system boots normally.

Any ideas what’s the problem?
Thanks.

#2

Something went wrong with the new kernel installation, likely a badly constructed initrd.

#3

Thanks for responding. What am I gonna do with that information?

There was nothing which did look unusual. Below is the contents of my /boot directory.

> ls -l /boot
total 68404
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 16 2013 backup_mbr
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1725 Oct 2 20:09 boot.readme
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 195182 Nov 12 18:01 config-4.13.12-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 196585 Nov 22 14:43 config-4.14.0-1-pae
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 15:52 dracut
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 2015 grub
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 24 19:02 grub2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 23 19:27 initrd → initrd-4.14.0-1-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 8425640 Jul 14 20:25 initrd-3.16.7-53-desktop
-rw------- 1 root root 11408768 Nov 24 19:02 initrd-4.13.12-1-pae
-rw------- 1 root root 11488724 Nov 24 19:02 initrd-4.14.0-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 495616 Oct 24 19:19 message
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1105019 Nov 12 18:59 symtypes-4.13.12-1-pae.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1119760 Nov 22 16:13 symtypes-4.14.0-1-pae.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 384275 Nov 12 18:58 symvers-4.13.12-1-pae.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 389711 Nov 22 16:11 symvers-4.14.0-1-pae.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 468 Nov 12 18:58 sysctl.conf-4.13.12-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 468 Nov 22 16:11 sysctl.conf-4.14.0-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2711745 Nov 12 18:52 System.map-4.13.12-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2737901 Nov 22 16:06 System.map-4.14.0-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8240756 Nov 12 19:07 vmlinux-4.13.12-1-pae.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8334078 Nov 22 16:21 vmlinux-4.14.0-1-pae.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 23 19:27 vmlinuz → vmlinuz-4.14.0-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 6341120 Nov 12 18:53 vmlinuz-4.13.12-1-pae
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 6412944 Nov 22 16:06 vmlinuz-4.14.0-1-pae
>

The dracut output from the last round of updates:

Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-4.14.0-1-pae
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --logfile /var/log/YaST2/mkinitrd.log --force --force-drivers "ata_piix ata_generic xennet xenblk" /boot/initrd-4.14.0-1-pae 4.14.0-1-pae
dracut: dracut module 'systemd-bootchart' will not be installed, because command '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-bootchart' could not be found!
dracut: *** Including module: bash ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: warpclock ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: *** Including module: drm ***
dracut: *** Including module: plymouth ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: resume ***
dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
dracut: *** Including module: suse-xfs ***
dracut: *** Including module: terminfo ***
dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: haveged ***
dracut: *** Including module: usrmount ***
dracut: *** Including module: base ***
dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
dracut: *** Including module: shutdown ***
dracut: *** Including module: suse ***
dracut: *** Including modules done ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files ***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files done ***
dracut: *** Stripping files ***
dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Constructing GenuineIntel.bin ****
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: Stored kernel commandline:
dracut: rd.driver.pre=ata_piix
rd.driver.pre=ata_generic
rd.driver.pre=xennet
rd.driver.pre=xenblk
dracut:  resume=UUID=1911e86f-c19a-48f5-bfc2-8e2a6e978136
dracut:  root=UUID=a4c7f346-8680-4476-abcb-be3c7890bc23 rootfstype=ext4 rootflags=rw,relatime,data=ordered
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initrd-4.14.0-1-pae' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initrd-4.14.0-1-pae' done ***

Looks all reasonable to me. Yet the ****ed thing doesn’t boot.
Any more suggestions?