Kernel panic after making Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 FIPS 140-2 compliant.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel panic with following error messages on console.
dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/vda3
dracut: Checking integrity of kernel
dracut Warning: /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64.hmac does not exist
dracut: FATAL: FIPS integrity test failed
dracut: Refusing to continue
dracut Warning: Signal caught!

dracut Warning: dracut: FATAL: FIPS integrity test failed
dracut Warning: dracut: Refusing to continue
Kernle panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init !
pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8150d0a8>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
[<ffffffff81073ae2>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
[<ffffffff81182965>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81073b48>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[<ffffffff81073bd7>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64
  • FIPS 140-2 compliant

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