104974 – kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! on boot

Bug 104974 - kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! on boot

Summary: kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! on boot

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High blocker (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2005-09-05 20:23 UTC by Sverre Eldøy
Modified:	2005-09-17 10:22 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Sverre Eldøy 2005-09-05 20:23:24 UTC

both the genkernel and my own kernels land on this message a meere second or so
after boot.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot genkernel/otherkernel from grub with ANY options (noacpi acpi=off noapm
nodma noscsi nosmp) or no options.
2. sit back and wait
3. presto

Actual Results:  
Process swapper (pid:1, thread-blablablabla
Stack: 00000280 --------
Call Trace:
sysfs_add_file
...
kernel_thread_helper
Code: 14 85 -----
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Expected Results:  
booted and showed me a nice login prompt

The computer is a laptop (Medion MID2020) with a pentium m 4 2,8ghz cpu, 512mb
ram, sis650 gfx. Haven't really emerged anything yet. Compiled with O2 optimz.
I have absolutely no idea what is going on.

my other computer is also a gentoo system (this one), and it works just fine.
It has to be some kind of hardware-related software thing ;P

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-06 01:36:13 UTC

Which kernel version is this?
Please post "emerge --info" output.

Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-17 10:22:19 UTC

See comment #1