Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 54945
"Kernel panic: No init found" after upgrading to 2.4.9
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
I used up2date yesterday (Oct. 22) to update, among other packages, kernel (to 2.4.9-6), mkinitrd (to 3.2.6), and glibc (to 2.2.4-19). The update completed sucessfully, lilo updated, etc. Now when I try to reboot the machine I get this: .... Mounting root filesystem pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel Fortunately, LILO gives me option of loading one of previous kernel images - and they load without any problem at all. Still, needless to say, I am very much upset. I have package SysVinit-2.78-17 installed, and rpm --verify shows no problems with it.
Did you also get the filesystem package (you should have gotten, if not let me know); also do you have a /initrd directory in your root filesystem (you can make one by hand if not, but the filesystem package update should have done that for you)
No, I do not have /initrd I do have /boot, which, among other files, contains initrd-2.4.2-2.img initrd-2.4.3-12.img initrd-2.4.9-6.img And yes, I did get and install package filesystem-2.1.0-2.1. Here is part of up2date install log: ------------------- [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date installing packages: ['kernel-2.4.9-6', 'kernel-headers-2.4.9-6', 'filesystem-2.1.0-2.1', 'glibc-2.2.4-19', 'glibc-common-2.2.4-19', 'glibc-devel-2.2.4-19', 'openssh-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-askpass-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-askpass-gnome-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-clients-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-server-2.9p2-8.7', 'telnet-server-0.17-18', 'mkinitrd-3.2.6-1', 'modutils-2.4.6-4', 'e2fsprogs-1.23-1.7.1', 'e2fsprogs-devel-1.23-1.7.1'] [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Opening rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm/ with option 0 [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Opening rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm/ with option 1 [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Opening rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm/ with option 0 [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Removing packages from package profile: ['e2fsprogs-1.19-4', 'e2fsprogs-devel-1.19-4', 'glibc-2.2.2-10', 'glibc-common-2.2.2-10', 'glibc-devel-2.2.2-10', 'kernel-headers-2.4.3-12', 'mkinitrd-3.0.10-1', 'modutils-2.4.2-5', 'openssh-2.5.2p2-5', 'openssh-askpass-2.5.2p2-5', 'openssh-askpass-gnome-2.5.2p2-5', 'openssh-clients-2.5.2p2-5', 'openssh-server-2.5.2p2-5', 'telnet-server-0.17-10'] [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Adding packages to package profile: ['e2fsprogs-1.23-1.7.1', 'e2fsprogs-devel-1.23-1.7.1', 'glibc-2.2.4-19', 'glibc-common-2.2.4-19', 'glibc-devel-2.2.4-19', 'kernel-2.4.9-6', 'kernel-headers-2.4.9-6', 'mkinitrd-3.2.6-1', 'modutils-2.4.6-4', 'openssh-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-askpass-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-askpass-gnome-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-clients-2.9p2-8.7', 'openssh-server-2.9p2-8.7', 'telnet-server-0.17-18'] [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Modifying lilo.conf to include the new kernel info [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Adding 2.4.9-6 to lilo.conf [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Running lilo with the new configuration [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date Running "/sbin/mkinitrd --ifneeded /boot/initrd-2.4.9-6.img 2.4.9-6" [Mon Oct 22 15:46:36 2001] up2date /boot/initrd-2.4.9-6.img was created
Does it work if you mkdir /initrd yourself (as root)?
Yes! After mkdir /initrd and rebooting, it worked. Funny - never expected that adding an empty directory can change things. Still, of course, it should've been done automatically.
It should absolutely have been done automatically, it's the reason we shipped an updated filesystem rpm in the first place! I'll go re-check the rpm, but it's just weird... (you're the first one to report this)
I see this as well. Unfortunately, I am installing via kickstart, and so I only have the 2.4.9 kernel, and can not make the initrd directory. Besides, I need this to work off the bat, since this needs to be automatic (hence using kickstart). I guess I could maybe do this in the post install section, but I would rather not. Any status on this problem? thanks, --bret
The new filesystem package just provides this directory... so why it's not there..............
Are you guys VERY sure you are using the 7.1 filesystem package and not the 7.2 one or one from Rawhide ?
Ok, I am an idiot. I had thought I had upgrading all of the new packages, but after just reviewing them, it looks like filesystem was not updated. I need to check my script that pulls the updates. Anyways, it is working now for me....sorry for the noise. --brett
You are right: package "filesystem" was *not* upgraded: rpm -qi filesystem Name : filesystem Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.0.7 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Fri 21 Jul 2000 11:26:37 AM EDT Install date: Wed 02 May 2001 12:27:28 PM EDT But I did select it in up2date, and up2date wrote in the log that it has updated it (see my previous comment)! And I believed it... So, this is not a kernel or filesystem bug but up2date bug.
One of our LUG members just reported seing this problem after *a clean install of RH 7.2*, so it is not clear whether this is an up2date problem. I will try to get more information from him.
Is this still an issue with the 2.7.11 versions of up2date?
I didn't have this problem with recent updtaes - but then, I didn't try removing /initrd directory or downgrading to an old version of filesystem to check whether it would work now.