Server panics on boot after kernel update to RHEL6.5, FC-SAN devices attached to the server.
Issue
- Server panics on boot after kernel update to RHEL6.5 (2.6.32-431.20.3) with the following messages written out to the standard output of the console. FC-SAN devices are attached to the server.
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8152812c>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
[<ffffffff81077332>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
[<ffffffff8118a6e5>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81077398>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[<ffffffff81077427>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Environment
- (Before update) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (kernel-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64)
- (After update) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64)
- Emulex Corporation Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter
- Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver (lpfc)
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