I have a fresh install of 12.1 32bit on an old laptop. It isn’t good for anything else, so I would like to use it as a test web server to do a bit of Drupaling on. As such, it is a LAMP install with no GUI. All I have done so far is configure the networking, since job 1 is getting everything up to date, as this is now a six month old distro.
Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to do any package management without it throwing a kernel panic. When I go into Yast|Software Management, it starts checking the software repositories and then immediately panics. The same happens if I type ‘zypper up’ directly into the command line. I’m sure it would help if I posted some details from the panic screen, but I’m not sure which bits would be most useful.
Anyone have any good ideas as to how I might troubleshoot/resolve this ?
A kernel BUG, but it appears you are using your own kernel flavour… if it
were the stock kernel you could report it, but being one you built
yourself, no. (it says /home/abuild/… unless I’m horribly mistaken,
and that’s the build directory at SUSE - it could be).
You should update the kernel, but that is precisely your problem, package
management.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Not my own kernel. This is a clean install of 12.1. So far, all I have done is configure the networking with a static IP on the wired NIC and nothing on the wifi, since that’s turned off anyway.
On 2012-05-21 15:46, stoooo wrote:
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> Not my own kernel. This is a clean install of 12.1. So far, all I have
> done is configure the networking with a static IP on the wired NIC and
> nothing on the wifi, since that’s turned off anyway.
And you can not do updates… Big problem. You might try the Beta of 12.2 :-?
The kernel bug and panic is directly reportable in bugzilla, but they will
tell you to install a newer kernel to see if the issue is solved. How to
upgrade the kernel, I do not know.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
stoooo wrote:
> Not my own kernel. This is a clean install of 12.1. So far, all I have
> done is configure the networking with a static IP on the wired NIC and
> nothing on the wifi, since that’s turned off anyway.
I might just try re-installing it. There’s no data on it yet for me to lose. And if I remember right, I can get the installer to pull down the latest packages during the installation, which might help get past the problem if it is a kernel bug that’s already been fixed.
On 2012-05-21 17:06, stoooo wrote:
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> Ooh, I don’t fancy Beta testing. Sorry.
>
> I might just try re-installing it. There’s no data on it yet for me to
> lose. And if I remember right, I can get the installer to pull down the
> latest packages during the installation, which might help get past the
> problem if it is a kernel bug that’s already been fixed.
Yes, try that, good idea.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-05-21 16:50, Dave Howorth wrote:
> stoooo wrote:
>> Not my own kernel. This is a clean install of 12.1. So far, all I have
>> done is configure the networking with a static IP on the wired NIC and
>> nothing on the wifi, since that’s turned off anyway.
>
> You should report the bug:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_kernel
Yes, true, but the kernel he is using is not the current one. And he can
not install the current one because it panics when trying to update.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Well that crashed and burned quite spectacularly. During the original installation, the machine was off the network, so the process was 100% based off the DVD. This time around I had it plugged into the network, since I was interested in doing a network install. Everything was going just fine until after the network configuration. Once the config was complete and it started doing the test to ensure connectivity, it did the panic thing all over again.
I’m going to try it with Ubuntu Server next, just to see what happens. Wish me luck.
I just wanted to close the loop on this topic. The laptop in question has since had a terminal mobo failure. It isn’t worth spending the money on fixing it. I’ve also bitten the bullet and invested in a VMware lab, so my SuSE web server will go on that. HP has some nice rebates on the N40L microserver and ML110 G7, so I have taken advantage of that and some nice bundles currently being offered by Servers Plus.
Sorry that we don’t have a solid answer to the question raised. That’s just the way it goes sometimes.
