Bug 746585 - Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Summary: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-17 07:11 UTC by Hongqing Yang
Modified: 2011-10-18 06:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-10-18 06:10:32 UTC
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Description Hongqing Yang 2011-10-17 07:11:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

This is to run the test cases:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_anaconda_btrfs_rootfs_on_disk_partition
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_anaconda_ext3_rootfs_on_disk_partition

which root partition with ext3 and btrfs format.
After installation with the first reboot, the following error occured:
 
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid:1,comm: switch_root Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.i6866.PAE #1
Call Trace:
[<c081e9db>] ? printk+0x2d/0x2f
 
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How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install system with minimal 
2. root / with format ext3 or btrfs
3. reboot after installation
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


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Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2011-10-17 14:08:04 UTC 
We really need to see the backtraces from that.

Also, it's not even clear which filesystem was in use from reading the bug report. I would guess btrfs?
Comment 2 Hongqing Yang 2011-10-18 06:10:32 UTC 
I cannot reproduce it. close it as it is not a bug.
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