Kernel 4.11 cant run on my machine

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Hi everybody,

On rhe 23rd of this month I posted this on the dutch board

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/524985-Tumbleweed-i7-3770-HD-Graphics-4000-Kernel-4-11

It looks like nobody has an answer so I decided to post it here.

The hardware: HP 8300 i7 3.4 Ghz 16 GB 240GB ssd 3TB hdd Built in Intel Graphics HD 4000

The problem: Since tumbleweed upgraded to kernel 4.11 my system keeps on rebooting
It shows: loading kernel, and then initial ramdisk
From that point it starts rebooting

On my installed system I went to advanced options after the upgrade of 16 may and chose kernel 4.10.13, as kernel 4.11.0 went rebooting.
My system starts fine with 4.10.13.

As I wanted to freshly install tumbleweed I downloaded the iso of 16 may. (thats the first iso where kernel 4.11 is included)
Fired it up and it starts rebooting just like my installed tumbleweed.
In the meantime I went on searching the internet but nothing looks like my problem.
I also downloaded the snapshots of the 20th, 22nd and the 24th of may. Everytime the same reboot appears. It makes no difference if booting the full dvd or the net install. These are the kernels 4.11.0, 4.11.1 and 4.11.2.

When I install Leap everything is fine. When I try to install tumbleweed into KVM on Leap (in this case I used the snapshot of tumbleweed of 24th may) it installs fine. But crashes when restarting Tumbleweed.

Why cant I install Tumbleweed with kernel 4.11 to my ssd???

Can anybody help me?

grtz
Karel

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I wonder, since nobody seems to recognize or know an answer: is there a possibillity to block a kernel update?
Just block the kernel update not the other updates and stick to the kernel 4.10?
Does anybody know a zypper command to get this done?

grtz
Karel

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Hi
Rebooting is very subjective… :wink: What you need to do is press the esc key and see what appears on the screen (or esc and/or F10) and maybe identify the core issue and raise a bug report.

Sure you can add a lock (zypper speak al, yast speak taboo) to the kernel, but sort of defeats the purpose of running a development rolling release to help other folks in the future aside from any possible security issues.

For example with my old MacBook (intel graphics) I still run the boot option video=SVIDEO-1:d for a kernel dump when changing from the desktop to a vt and back (still an open bug report for a long time).

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Thank you for replying

Tried the “esc and F10” thing you mentioned
Unfortunately nothing happens, nothing gets shown, just a reboot.
This is really the only thing I can tell.

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Hi
So when you get to the grub screen select the advanced options and boot in failsafe mode, does that work?

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I don’t know that “and” works at all.
For most systems,
<After> you make your kernel selection (or accept default) in the GRUB menu and proceed,
You can <then> hit the ESC key to view boot entries fly by on the screen and if your boot freezes you should be able to see the last entries on the screen.

TSU

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I really appreciate your help, but I am deeply into work the few coming weeks and dont have the time to experiment at the moment.
I will pick this up in a couple of weeks.

grtz
karel