kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!
Installed Hardy Heron four days ago with the 2.6.24-16 kernel - everything worked fine.
Yesterday I booted up the machine in the morning, had seven upgrades to install (nothing system critical - the freshclam virus-scanner and lvm)
Shut down the computer.
In the evening when I tried to start up the computer I got the following error message:
/init: ./34: Can't open /scripts/functions
[ 20.587228] kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!
This in both normal and recovery mode.
How do I fix this?
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| Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : | #1 |
Hello
As far as I know a kernel panic points to defective hardware and the kernel loads modules according to the hardware... So I'd suggest you to check your hardware ,the connections, RAM etc
Regards
Bhavani Shankar,
I don't think it's a hardware-issue since the old 2.6.24-14 kernel
boots up fine. A failure in the hardware would affect that kernel in
the same way.
For the record, I was able to boot that 2.6.24-16 kernel for three
days without any error messages.
//Matthias Andersson
| Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : | #3 |
Ok...
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Please provide more info about your problem so that the bugsquad people would assist you better
Regards
Bhavani Shankar.
| steve801 (steveisnt) said : | #4 |
Im getting this problem to and cant use ubuntu - had to reformat my hard drive as i wanted a fresh install of ubuntu - but now it kees saying kernal panic not syncing attempt to kill init on restart wont get nay further ! cnat be hardware as iv now had to reinstall windows to get me here! using a hp pavilion 760.uk if that helps?! veyr confused!
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