Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

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Issue

  • Kernel panic with following call traces;
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-220.el6.i686 #1
Call Trace:
 [<c082e28d>] ? panic+0x42/0xf9
 [<c0459471>] ? do_exit+0x731/0x740
 [<c04594bc>] ? do_group_exit+0x3c/0xa0
 [<c046bf7e>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x1ce/0x460
 [<c050460d>] ? handle_pte_fault+0xcd/0xdf0
 [<c0439860>] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0x120/0x150
 [<c0408fa3>] ? do_signal+0x93/0xa50
 [<c04334b0>] ? mm_fault_error+0xa0/0xc0
 [<c050460d>] ? handle_pte_fault+0xcd/0xdf0
 [<c0833ad0>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x90
 [<c04099d7>] ? do_notify_resume+0x77/0xa0
 [<c0830f5c>] ? work_notifysig+0x13/0x1b

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • SIGBUS (7) signal

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