From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756356AbYDULID (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:08:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754396AbYDULHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:07:53 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:37993 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754164AbYDULHx (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:07:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m4YCZAe61kIe7KpguO77J8Tt0Z36hyFhFwwtG8ZyET3TDu2wcicjziE1wgw8AyNfkp9NZG04BccnT14+J/EKMiiNy51ulvnK189QQSOc2gjo1KdUJwYaOLlpUf3p0hRWoENFuFuvEFRc11aZ1H0miebeuqjY4eT6zRk7N20WM+Q= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:07:51 +0200 From: "Bart Van Assche" To: "Matthias Andersson" Subject: Re: Kernel panic Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9a5eeacd0804210356t2b84bb40t7a266467c3699bd9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a5eeacd0804210350v79db27f0of73a29c55e2b7311@mail.gmail.com> <9a5eeacd0804210356t2b84bb40t7a266467c3699bd9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Matthias Andersson wrote: > I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) four days ago and with it the > 2.6.24-16 kernel. > The kernel worked fine until yesterday when I booted up the machine I > was greeted by the following error message: > > /init: ./34: Can't open /scripts/functions > [ 20.587228] kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init! > > What could have caused this failiure? > There were some upgrades installed before the final shutdown of the > system (prior to the kernel panic) but nothing system-critical. Hello Matthias, This is an Ubuntu 8.04 issue, not a kernel issue. Please post this issue in an Ubuntu forum. Bart.