SuSE 10.0 Install/boot problem

trs · 11-01-2005, 12:35 PM

I'm having a problem installing SuSE 10.0 on one of my computers.

I downloaded the 5 CD images from a suse mirror site and successfully installed everything on one of my computers, but its failing on another one.

Everything from the first CD installs okay and the system reboots. It goes through the boot process up until after executing /etc/init.d/boot.local (which is empty) and then hangs. Its at this point (I believe) that it is supposed to switch to runlevel 5, but the whole system is hung and has to powered off to restart.

I tried booting the failsafe option and booting into single user but they all hang at the same point in the boot process.

The processor I'm using is a 2.7 GHz Intel Celeron.

Any help or ideas on where the problem is would be appreciated.

Cheers

Terry

dd12 · 11-01-2005, 05:12 PM

are you sure the system is hanging? I mean if you let it sit for a LONG time does it continue? I am thinking it is trying to bring up the network but is having problems. More info on where it is hanging and what is on the screen is required to help further.

trs · 11-02-2005, 04:11 AM

I've now tracked down exactly where its hanging and I still cant figure it out.

Near the end of the /etc/init.d/boot script the second stage of the installation process is invoked with the script /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.Second-Stage.

This file contains the following section of code:

Code:

for i in \
	/usr/share/info             \
	/usr/man /usr/share/man     \
	/usr/X11R6/man              \
	/usr/openwin/man            \
	/usr/lib/perl5/man          \
	/usr/lib/teTeX/man          \
	/usr/local/man
do
	if [ -d $i ] ; then
		find $i -follow -type d 2> /dev/null | xargs touch 2> /dev/null
	fi
done

It hangs when the find command is searching the /usr/share/man directory.

At first I thought this might be caused by a softlink causing a directory loop so I modified the code by adding an extra find command that simply printed out the directories it found. This command hung when it reached /usr/share/man/man3 directory.

I next thought it might be some disk corruption so I booted the "rescue system" option from the CD and fsck'ed the disk.
I then mounted the disk on /mnt and ran "chroot /mnt bash". Running the same find commands did not result in any problems. In fact I tried running the YaST2.Second-Stage script and it ran correctly and even came up with the next stage in installation process.

What this all boils down to is that "find /usr/share/man -follow -type d" hangs when it runs as part of the boot process and completes okay when it isn't. Does anybody have any clue as to why this happens?