F17: kernel panic at shutdown

[Jon Ciesla]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Pedro Francisco
<pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jurgen Kramer <gtmkramer at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> I am getting frequent kernel panics when shutting down my laptop. It is
>>> running the latest F17 with all updates.
>>>
>>> Last messages before the panic are:
>>>
>>> Cannot finalize remaining file system and devices, giving up.
>>> Succesfully changed into root pivot.
>>> /shutdown: line 12: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file ore directory
>>> [ kernel panic ]
>>>
>>> Any ideas what's wrong here? My other F17 test rig does not exhibit this
>>> problem.
>>
>> Best guess:
>>
>> Sounds like the system is switching back to the initramfs during
>> shutdown (normal), and then something is messed up in there and causing
>> dracut to abort.  Since dracut is PID 1 at that point, the kernel is
>> unhappy because there is no init process.
>>
>> Why your initramfs is messed up would be the thing to chase.
>
> I believe I had that issue when I booted F17 using the F16 kernel. You don't
> happen to have updated using the non-supported method (
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum ) do you?

Hey, don't blame yum upgrading, if you use the F17 kernel, it's fine. :)

-J

> Just a theory, though :)
>
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