F17: kernel panic at shutdown

[antonio montagnani]

Il 07/05/2012 19:15, Jurgen Kramer ha scritto:
> 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
>
have you tried to boot with Selinux in permissive mode??

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