Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

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Issue

  • Kernel panic due to IO requests pending on virtual disks.
  • Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
  • System crashed and rebooted with below errors:

    [354443.153513] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b   
    
    [354443.153546] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64 #1
    [354443.153570] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 09/17/2015
    [354443.153603]  ffffffff81a32500 0000000083f32429 ffff88017cd3fc58 ffffffff816a3e61
    [354443.153630]  ffff88017cd3fcd8 ffffffff8169dd24 ffffffff00000010 ffff88017cd3fce8
    [354443.153656]  ffff88017cd3fc88 0000000083f32429 ffffffff81eb82c0 000000000000000b
    [354443.153683] Call Trace:
    [354443.153698]  [<ffffffff816a3e61>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
    [354443.153717]  [<ffffffff8169dd24>] panic+0xe8/0x20d
    [354443.153736]  [<ffffffff8108e176>] do_exit+0xa36/0xa40
    [354443.153755]  [<ffffffff8109aff3>] ? __sigqueue_free.part.12+0x33/0x40
    [354443.153793]  [<ffffffff8108e1ff>] do_group_exit+0x3f/0xa0
    [354443.153813]  [<ffffffff8109e32e>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1ce/0x5e0
    [354443.153835]  [<ffffffff8102a467>] do_signal+0x57/0x6c0
    [354443.153853]  [<ffffffff811b1e81>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x691/0xfa0
    [354443.153874]  [<ffffffff816b02b1>] ? __do_page_fault+0x391/0x450
    [354443.153897]  [<ffffffff8102ab2f>] do_notify_resume+0x5f/0xb0
    [354443.153917]  [<ffffffff816ac3bc>] retint_signal+0x48/0x8c
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • VMware

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