Bug 462550

Summary:	boot hiccup with jexec initialisation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Michal Marek <mmarek>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	meissner
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Description Markus Elfring 2008-12-26 08:30:43 UTC

I have noticed a boot hiccup twice so far. The step "Starting jexec services" does not make progress for over a minute so that I have got the impression that an initialisation part got stuck.

Other users reported this issue, too.
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/402401-boot-hangs-starting-service-jexec.html
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/402087-11-1-hangs-first-boot.html
http://forums.opensuse.org/pre-release-beta/401012-11-1rc1-boot-stuck-jexec.html

The YaST2 software management does not show me a package which provides the component "jexec". The YaST2 runlevel editor shows the description "Supports the direct execution of binary formats" for this system service.

The article "The jexec Wrapper" does not provide that kind of explanation I am looking for.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-4820/6mkaodgad?l=Ja&a=view

Comment 1 Michal Marek 2009-01-13 09:06:34 UTC

You can delete the 'install binfmt_misc' line from /etc/modprobe.conf as a workaround. An online update for 11.1 will be released to address this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463582 ***