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kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!

Asked by Matthias Andersson

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

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Bhavani Shankar,

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Matthias Andersson (matthias-andersson) said : 		#2

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

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Ok...

added a comment here...

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.24/+bug/63134

Please provide more info about your problem so that the bugsquad people would assist you better

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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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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