F17: kernel panic at shutdown

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:46 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> 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 :)
> >
> > --
Nah, this is on a cleanly installed F17 rc/beta updated with all the
updates. Maybe I'll try a fresh install with F17 TC3 to see if that
resolves my problem.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Jurgen