linux-image-2.6.19-5-generic Kernel panic -- not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[OffHand]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.19-5-generic

Kernel panic while booting linux-image-2.6.19-5-generic.
Feisty Fawn on VMware Server.
Attached a screenshot from the bootup process.

Kernel panic -- not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Lack of information regarding the system this is being experienced on.

Please provide detailed description of hardware, aswell as details about what the system was doing when this happened (before mounting initramfs, after, while loading modules, mounting the rootfs, etc?).

[OffHand (offhand303)]

    description: Computer
    product: 939NF4G-SATA2
    version: 1.00
    serial: 00000000
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3
    configuration: uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 939NF4G-SATA2
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.00
       serial: 00000000
       slot: TBD
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: P1.50 (03/15/2006)
          size: 64KB
          capacity: 448KB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 1
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 15.15.2
          serial: TBD
          slot: CPUSocket
          size: 1GHz
          capacity: 1GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 200MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 4
             slot: L1-Cache
             size: 128KB
             capacity: 128KB
             capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies data
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 5
             slot: L2-Cache
             size: 512KB
             capacity: 512KB
             capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified
     *-memory:0
          description: System memory
          physical id: 3
          size: 1011MB
     *-memory:1 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: C51 Host Bridge
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 5
          bus info: pci@00:00.0
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz (15.1515ns)
          capabilities: bus_master cap_list
     *-memory:2 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: C51 Memory Controller 0
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 0.1
          bus info: pci@00:00.1
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz (15.1515ns)
     *-memory:3 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: C51 Memory Controller 1
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 0.2
          bus info: pci@00:00.2
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz (15.1515ns)
     *-memory:4 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: C51 Memory Controller 5
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 0.3
          bus info: pci@00:00.3
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz (15.1515ns)
     *-memory:5 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: C51 Memor...

[OffHand (offhand303)]

Kernel Panic while booting

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

For future reference, please do not paste such large output into comments. Use the attachment functionality.

Thanks

[OffHand (offhand303)]

Alright, I'll do that next time. I hope you have a ll the info you need.

[OffHand (offhand303)]

lspci info from terminal

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

I attach a full trace of boot process, including such kernel panic. Hope this helps.

[Gwmngilfen (greg-sutcliffe)]

I'd like to confirm the same behaviour. Running VMware on AMD64 Edgy, used a fresh debootstrap of the feisty sources, built from a Knoppix bootdisk iso. Hardware is (VMware host) Intel EM64T 2.8Ghz DualCore, 1Gb RAM.

[Marco Paulo Martins Sousa (marcomsousa)]

Why not use the last generic kenel(2.6.19-7-generic), instead of this old?

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

2.6.19-7 is affected too. I think it is a VMware issue rather than a kernel one.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

This does not show up in 2.6.19-7-386 kernel, but there is something wrong with ata drivers..

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Kernel panic seems over in 2.6.20-2.2 kernel.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Please retest against 2.6.20-2 when it is available in the feisty archive.

[OffHand (offhand303)]

I can boot the new kernel (2.6.20). Thanks!

On 12/16/06, Ben Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Please retest against 2.6.20-2 when it is available in the feisty
> archive.
>
> ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.19 (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: linux-source-2.6.19 => linux-source-2.6.20
> Status: Confirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> linux-image-2.6.19-5-generic kernel panic
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/70874
>

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Original reporter confirmed this has been fixed in 2.6.20-2.