I have just installed the latest updates on a SLES12 Server (running KVM). The updates were on the popup menu, not the ones from online update in YAST. After a reboot today, the system hangs at the WICKED prompt and will go no further. I have tried the recovery option, but I get to a graphics screen syaing that the system fails to load. Any ideas anyone?
Regards
ChasR.
Hi
Your not running a proprietary driver for the hardware, graphics,
controller etc?
What is the system your running on?
If you press ctrl+alt+F10 when it hangs, what kernel info do you see,
press ctrl+alt+F7 to get back, or if you press ctrl+alt+F1 do you get a
login?
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Thanks for getting back to me. I am running the AMD driver for Linux for my graphics card and like yourself, thought that this might be the problem. I went into recovery mode, and changed the X11 driver back to default, but this still did not work. Also tried the last 5 recoveries at the boot menu, advanced. No luck here. As the system was the KVM server, it was no big deal to flatten it (images are on another disc mounted at the libvirt/images, so I only had the server to rebuild. Once this was completed, all the updates added and the AMD graphics driver installed, everything is working as expected (I have all 4 vms up and running with no problems either).
In the light of everything working fine with all the latest patches, I am no further to finding out the problem, just glad that it was an easy and quick task to rebuild the KVM server.
Note: on SLES12 running KVM, the virtual machine .xml files ARE NOT in the same directory as the appropriate disc image, and do not reside (in my case) on the secondary disc under the image subdirectory. This worked extremely well under SLES11 and I cannot see any advantage in separating the two files, especially regarding the backup of the vm’s. Just as well I realised this and had taken appropriate backups for the corresponding directories. These are /etc/libvirt/qemu/ for the .xml files and /var/lib/libvirt/images for the image files. Also, when you create a new vm, the image files are not automatically named with the server name under the server name directory, they are just grouped together in ascending order (1,2,3 etc) in the image directory. Shame that SLES12 has made a backward (very) step in the virtualization stakes.
Regards
ChasR.