9.3 beta update crauses kernel panic on reboot

[Norbert M Haigermoser]

maybe helpful information for stabilizing the coming release

* did a fresh install from the first 9.3 beta ISO --> everything OK

* then did upgrade pending packages from within webGUI

* reboot

* kernel panic because could not re-mount root filesystem (boot media is an usb-stick)

* selecting the first boot entry (9.3 beta) in grub boot menu in order to revert to last working version did work

see screenshots for details

 

[rogerh]

If you do a fresh install of the original Beta, does it offer you a very recent upgrade or does it do them incrementally in the order they were released? Some of the early upgrades had a problem with upgrading. I would suggest a new install of the current version of the Beta, or a manual upgrade through the GUI of the current upgrade version. Then you will miss out the early problematic upgrades. This solved the problem for me.

 

[joeschmuck]

If you install the iso, the next upgrade should be the current and latest upgrade. I personally have the "Automatically check for updates" un-checked. I prefer to wait and manually select the update and this way I can possibly skip a release or two and somewhat control what I'm testing.

 

[jkh]

I've never seen anything like that before. Does it panic again if you re-select the boot environment that had the problem? The fact that it can boot OK from the same pool, but not liking a specific dataset (clone) is definitely odd. As I said, that's a totally new one on us.