kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 05:59 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
> 
> > From: Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de>
> > Subject: Re: kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!
> > To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:45 AM
> > On 10/16/2008 02:34 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > [<c046cc30>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x1ac/0x1c5
> > > [<c04059cb>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
> > > [<c046cc30>] ?
> > >
> > > [<e094e6c7>] ? ext4_get_sb+0x18/0x1a [ext4]
> > > [<e09504df>] ? ext4_fill_super+0x0/0x1f1a [ext4]
> > >
> > > The last two here appear to tell me something.  I was
> > bugzilling the denied avcs and the computer froze.  I tried
> > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and CTRL+ALT+DELETE and I could not do
> > anything.  I turned off the computer manually and now all I
> > see is this :(
> > >
> > > Can't save the message trying to boot to previous
> > kernel to get output.  Will get back if I can.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Antonio
> > 
> > This changelog entry from the latest kernel in koji might
> > be related:
> > 
> > * Wed Oct 15 2008 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
> > 2.6.27-16
> > - Disable FTRACE; DYNAMIC_FTRACE will be marked broken in
> > 2.6.27.1
> >    (without dynamic ftrace the overhead is noticeable.)
> > 
> > Regards,
> >    Dennis

> Thanks Dennis for letting me know about this.  I still want to figure
> out if I can boot back.  I keep seeing the kernel panic on the 2.6.27
> kernels.  How can I get an fsck at boot to try and fix this?

	You're probably going to need to boot from a recovery disk and manually
run fsck.  ITMT, the Dynamic FTRACE is seriously broken.  Discussion on
LKML indicates it may have been at the heart of the e1000 firmware
corruption issue.  The 2.6.27.1 release yesterday was, more or less, an
emergency release to prohibit the FTRACE option from being enabled until
proper fixes are implemented.  You're going to need to update your
kernel ASAP.

> Regards,

> Antonio 

	Mike

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