[CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, so 
I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages 
(mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off the 
top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up. As 
it starts to boot, says:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[814fd24a] ? panic+0xa0/0x168
[81070bd2] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
[8117cba5] ? fput+0x25/0x30
[81070c38] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[81070cc7] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[8100b0f2] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Also, tried selecting the previous kernel at boot, but got the same 
message, except with 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 referenced.

Machine is a dell poweredge 620, perc h310 raid controller, 4x600GB 10K 
SAS, 16GB RAM, 2xIntel Xeon E5-2630 2.3GHz procs (hex-core), dual 495W 
power supplies.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Morten Stevens
On 20.08.2012 18:17, Joseph Koenig wrote:
 Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, 
 so
 I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages
 (mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off 
 the
 top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up. 
 As
 it starts to boot, says:

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1
 Call Trace:
 [814fd24a] ? panic+0xa0/0x168
 [81070bd2] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
 [8117cba5] ? fput+0x25/0x30
 [81070c38] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
 [81070cc7] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
 [8100b0f2] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

That's probably a bug.

Please fill a bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com

 Also, tried selecting the previous kernel at boot, but got the same
 message, except with 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 referenced.

Which previous kernel? 2.6.32-279.2.1 or 2.6.32-279.1.1?

 Machine is a dell poweredge 620, perc h310 raid controller, 4x600GB 
 10K
 SAS, 16GB RAM, 2xIntel Xeon E5-2630 2.3GHz procs (hex-core), dual 
 495W
 power supplies.

This machine is certified for RHEL 6 and should run without problems on 
CentOS 6.

Best regards,

Morten
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread m . roth
Joseph Koenig wrote:
 Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, so
 I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages
 (mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off the
 top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up. As
 it starts to boot, says:

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1
 Call Trace:
 [814fd24a] ? panic+0xa0/0x168
snip
My first reaction is when the menu, or the about to boot kernel... line
comes up, edit that, then add rdshell to the end of your kernel line, and
let it boot. If it gets to the rdshell, you might check to see if there's
an agreement between the root (hdx,x) line in grub.conf and what the
system leads grub to think is the first h/d.

Also, here's what I'm assuming: a) the PERC controller is actually
presenting the drives to the system, and b) that grub was in fact
installed.

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
 Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, so
 I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages
 (mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off the
 top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up. As
 it starts to boot, says:

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1
 Call Trace:
 [814fd24a] ? panic+0xa0/0x168
 snip
 My first reaction is when the menu, or the about to boot kernel... line
 comes up, edit that, then add rdshell to the end of your kernel line, and
 let it boot. If it gets to the rdshell, you might check to see if there's
 an agreement between the root (hdx,x) line in grub.conf and what the
 system leads grub to think is the first h/d.
Thanks for the suggestion - just tried and doesn't get to rdshell. The 
panic happens within a few seconds (if not less) from when I edit the 
kernel line and hit enter to start booting.
 Also, here's what I'm assuming: a) the PERC controller is actually
 presenting the drives to the system, and b) that grub was in fact
 installed.
Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is presenting 
drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after 
installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine.

Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make sure 
that still works? Would that rule out something having gone awry with my 
RAID card or disk?

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread m . roth
Joseph Koenig wrote:
 Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, so
 I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages
 (mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off the
 top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up.
 As it starts to boot, says:

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1
 Call Trace:
 [814fd24a] ? panic+0xa0/0x168
 snip
 My first reaction is when the menu, or the about to boot kernel...
 line comes up, edit that, then add rdshell to the end of your kernel line,
 and let it boot. If it gets to the rdshell, you might check to see if
 there's an agreement between the root (hdx,x) line in grub.conf and
what the
 system leads grub to think is the first h/d.

 Thanks for the suggestion - just tried and doesn't get to rdshell. The
 panic happens within a few seconds (if not less) from when I edit the
 kernel line and hit enter to start booting.

 Also, here's what I'm assuming: a) the PERC controller is actually
 presenting the drives to the system, and b) that grub was in fact
 installed.

 Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is presenting
 drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after
 installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine.

 Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make sure
 that still works? Would that rule out something having gone awry with my
 RAID card or disk?

You *might* want to try installing the minimal server version. Minimal
means a lot less

mark

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
 Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is presenting
 drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after
 installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine.

 Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make sure
 that still works? Would that rule out something having gone awry with my
 RAID card or disk?
 You *might* want to try installing the minimal server version. Minimal
 means a lot less
Installed from minimal the first time around, which is why I thought 
doing that again may be helpful. You think I'd be best to get the full 
install and run that though?

Thanks for all the help.
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread m . roth
Joseph Koenig wrote:
 Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is
 presenting
 drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after
 installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine.

 Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make
 sure
 that still works? Would that rule out something having gone awry with
 my
 RAID card or disk?
 You *might* want to try installing the minimal server version. Minimal
 means a lot less
 Installed from minimal the first time around, which is why I thought
 doing that again may be helpful. You think I'd be best to get the full
 install and run that though?

Well, I think there's a minimal server, rather than the full server
install. Of course, I could be confusing that with our pxeboot setup


Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC firmware,
or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig


 Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC firmware,
 or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?
Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even 
backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens...

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread m . roth
Joseph Koenig wrote:

 Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC
 firmware, or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?

 Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even
 backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens...

You mean the backup superblocks are bad? And it was a running system before?

Is it still under warranty? You might consider talking to Dell about
checking it out. They'll want you to run the OMSA utility that scans the
system.

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
 Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even
 backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens...
 You mean the backup superblocks are bad? And it was a running system before?

 Is it still under warranty? You might consider talking to Dell about
 checking it out. They'll want you to run the OMSA utility that scans the
 system.

Yep, was running just fine, install went fine, then at reboot after the 
yum update, this happened. Server is maybe a week old, so yeah, will get 
a hold of Dell. Thanks,

Joe
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Jim Wildman
I have the same behavior 6.2 vs latest on my Toshiba satellite.

32-220 boots fine (except for the touchpad and power detection)
32-279.2.1 crashes immediately

Glad to forward logs

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

 Joseph Koenig wrote:
 Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is
 presenting
 drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after
 installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine.

 Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make
 sure
 that still works? Would that rule out something having gone awry with
 my
 RAID card or disk?
 You *might* want to try installing the minimal server version. Minimal
 means a lot less
 Installed from minimal the first time around, which is why I thought
 doing that again may be helpful. You think I'd be best to get the full
 install and run that though?

 Well, I think there's a minimal server, rather than the full server
 install. Of course, I could be confusing that with our pxeboot setup


 Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC firmware,
 or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after installation of Driver Diskette for enabling Onboard RAID Controller Chipset

2011-07-18 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
 On 07/14/11 10:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
 I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card
 B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA
 HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940
 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS.

 the SmartArray 110i is simply Intel Matrix fake raid.  The hardware is
 purely basic plain SATA JBOD, but the BIOS and driver implement the raid
 behind the systems back.

 Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid.  See
 http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29


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Hi Again,

I did some changes, i just created two partitions / and swap using the
Anaconda Installer, it worked fine after loading boot loader GRUB and
then after it stopped at Kernel Panic.

device—mapper: dm—raid15: initialized v0.25941
Waiting for driver initialization
Scanning and configuring dnraid supported devices
Trying to resume from (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)
Unable to access resume device (L‘*wmVgW_¢;1iZ)
Creating root device.
Hounting root filesystem.
EXT3—fs error (device sdc1) : ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 296
not in group (block 231211688)!
EXT3~fs1 group descriptors corrupted!
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Suitching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
suitchrootr mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic — not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Please suggest further. is there a way to create customized initrd for
this default kernel available on CentOS 5.6

Thanks and Regards,

Kaushal
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after installation of Driver Diskette for enabling Onboard RAID Controller Chipset

2011-07-18 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
 On 07/14/11 10:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
 I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card
 B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA
 HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940
 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS.

 the SmartArray 110i is simply Intel Matrix fake raid.  The hardware is
 purely basic plain SATA JBOD, but the BIOS and driver implement the raid
 behind the systems back.

 Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid.  See
 http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29


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 Hi Again,

 I did some changes, i just created two partitions / and swap using the
 Anaconda Installer, it worked fine after loading boot loader GRUB and
 then after it stopped at Kernel Panic.

 device—mapper: dm—raid15: initialized v0.25941
 Waiting for driver initialization
 Scanning and configuring dnraid supported devices
 Trying to resume from (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)
 Unable to access resume device (L‘*wmVgW_¢;1iZ)
 Creating root device.
 Hounting root filesystem.
 EXT3—fs error (device sdc1) : ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 
 296
 not in group (block 231211688)!
 EXT3~fs1 group descriptors corrupted!
 mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
 Setting up other filesystems.
 Setting up new root fs
 setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
 no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
 setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
 setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
 Suitching to new root and running init.
 unmounting old /dev
 unmounting old /proc
 unmounting old /sys
 suitchrootr mount failed: No such file or directory
 Kernel panic — not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

 Please suggest further. is there a way to create customized initrd for
 this default kernel available on CentOS 5.6

 Thanks and Regards,

 Kaushal


Hi Again,

I have read this on the forums and it explained as below.

Probably need to get that module into your initrd. The computer, upon
booting, loads a kernel image and an initial ramdisk. the latter is a
compressed filesystem image that the bootloader just maps into memory,
and it holds a number of kernel modules and helper programs for the
kernel you are booting. if it does not contain the kernel module
that's driving your RAID controller, the kernel won't ever be able to
recognize your disk array, because it
lacks the proper driver for it that's why the initrd's helper programs
are panicking - they are trying to mount a crucial filesystem from a
device which just isn't there it cannot continue, and bails with a
big, fat error

Somehow need to include the driver you loaded from the USB thumb drive
during installation during booting your system (most probably from
within
the initrd) . probably need to get that module into the initrd.

Please guide/suggest further.

Regards,

Kaushal
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after installation of Driver Diskette for enabling Onboard RAID Controller Chipset

2011-07-18 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
 kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
 Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid.  See
 http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29

 Hi Again,

 I did some changes, i just created two partitions / and swap using the
 Anaconda Installer, it worked fine after loading boot loader GRUB and
 then after it stopped at Kernel Panic.

 device—mapper: dm—raid15: initialized v0.25941
 Waiting for driver initialization
 Scanning and configuring dnraid supported devices
 Trying to resume from (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)
 Unable to access resume device (L‘*wmVgW_¢;1iZ)
 Creating root device.
 Hounting root filesystem.
 EXT3—fs error (device sdc1) : ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 
 296
 not in group (block 231211688)!
 EXT3~fs1 group descriptors corrupted!
 mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
 Setting up other filesystems.
 Setting up new root fs
 setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
 no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
 setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
 setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
 Suitching to new root and running init.
 unmounting old /dev
 unmounting old /proc
 unmounting old /sys
 suitchrootr mount failed: No such file or directory
 Kernel panic — not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

 Please suggest further. is there a way to create customized initrd for
 this default kernel available on CentOS 5.6

 Thanks and Regards,

 Kaushal

 
 Hi Again,
 
 I have read this on the forums and it explained as below.
 
 Probably need to get that module into your initrd. The computer, upon
 booting, loads a kernel image and an initial ramdisk. the latter is a
 compressed filesystem image that the bootloader just maps into memory,
 and it holds a number of kernel modules and helper programs for the
 kernel you are booting. if it does not contain the kernel module
 that's driving your RAID controller, the kernel won't ever be able to
 recognize your disk array, because it
 lacks the proper driver for it that's why the initrd's helper programs
 are panicking - they are trying to mount a crucial filesystem from a
 device which just isn't there it cannot continue, and bails with a
 big, fat error
 
 Somehow need to include the driver you loaded from the USB thumb drive
 during installation during booting your system (most probably from
 within
 the initrd) . probably need to get that module into the initrd.
 
 Please guide/suggest further.
 
You were suggested to use SOFTWARE LINUX RAID = mdraid, not to attempt 
to install driver for your RAID.

1. Have you set your RAID controller to AHCI mode?

2. Have you created Software RAID partitions and then created EXT4 
partitions on top of the Software RAID (mdraid)?

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Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after installation of Driver Diskette for enabling Onboard RAID Controller Chipset

2011-07-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/14/11 10:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
 I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card
 B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA
 HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940
 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS.

the SmartArray 110i is simply Intel Matrix fake raid.  The hardware is 
purely basic plain SATA JBOD, but the BIOS and driver implement the raid 
behind the systems back.

Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid.  See 
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29


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[CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after installation of Driver Diskette for enabling Onboard RAID Controller Chipset

2011-07-14 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi,

I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card
B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA
HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940
GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS. Have created driver diskette using dd
command to enable this controller card to the CentOS 5.6 x86_64 arch
and it shows HP LOGICAL VOLUME of size 940 GB by the Anaconda
installer to load CentOS 5.6 on these server.

Below are the steps to enable driver diskette from HP
(http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-253be2baaf684954a55b6680adlang=encc=usidx=1mode=4;)

gunzip hpahcisr-1.2.6-7.rhel5.x86_64.dd.gz
dd if=hpahcisr-1.2.6-7.rhel5.x86_64.dd of=/dev/sdb (USB Flash Drive)

CentOS 5.6 Installation Procedure :- Boot up the System using DVD
containing CentOS 5.6 and type linux dd blacklist=ahci and then it
asks for load driver diskette and then point it to the USB Flash Drive
which contains the SATA Controller driver image. The driver gets
loaded during the installation and after OS Installation is complete
and then reboot it fails and says Error 21: Selected disk does not
exist and when i edit grub grub root (hd0,0) and press b to boot it
works fine and later I get the below message on the Console with
Kernel Panic.

Mounting root filesystem.
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Am i missing anything? Please suggest/guide.

Regards,

Kaushal
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Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2010-09-22 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
Hi,Agnello
(2010/09/22 3:28), Agnello George wrote:
 I am writing a small documentation on reason(s) :
   why  kernel panic happen !!and
   possible (crisp)   solution(s)

I can help you about panic message.

(09/22/2010)
Today, I brushed up The best of 11 kernel panic message (google indexed order)

PANIC MESSAGE
Index (Type)  Kernel Panic Message in the world
===
58,300.(A)Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
47,900.(B)kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
28,900.(C)Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
15,600.(D)kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt.
12,300.(E)Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found, Try passing init= option 
to kernel
 6,930.(F)Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes..
 4,900.(G)Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt
 3,700.(H)Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops
 1,520.(I)Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!
 1,230.(J)Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine check
   110.(K)Kernel panic - not syncing: nmi watchdog

Did you see whole message?
I have classified these message by reasonsolution.

REASONMessage Type
=
Hardware :G,I,J,K
Software Configuration:A,B,E,F,H,(maybe caused by Hardware)
Software Bug :C,D,(maybe caused by Software configHardware)

SOLUTION
REASON SOLUTION
=
Hardware :Replace New Hardware
Software Configuration:Back to old configuration.
Software Bug :Do not use this feature. Do not make these condition. Ask 
someone to fix this problem.

Please comment about reason  solution by each message.(A-K)
(This Support schemes are oriented by only CentOS )
(Maybe raw wild Linux(Debian) ignores this solution because they are more 
unstable.)

I wish this table will help someone to against CentOS kernel trouble...

The centos.org has many trouble topics with Kernel panic.
You can search panic message in CentOS forum. (This is Ad for yahoogroups)
  https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/index.php
Don't ask about other distribution(Debian, Ubuntu, fedora) on CentOS's MLforum

Thanks.

Tsuyoshi.

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[CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2010-09-21 Thread Agnello George
I am writing a small documentation on reason(s) :
 why  kernel panic happen !!and
 possible (crisp)   solution(s)

googling out this error throws me very hazy solutions .. if some one could
suggest the possible reasons and  crispy solution  it would be of great
documentation help to many .

one great link i found was this (
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/explained-kernel-panic-not-syncing-attempted-to-kill-
init-353920/)

 Thanks

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Regards
Agnello D'souza
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