System crashes from killing init proccess during reboot with RHEL6.7 kernel.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System crashes at init proccess with RHEL6.7 kernel.

    Log in kernel ring buffer (or vmcore-dmesg.txt) is

    sd 4:2:0:0: [sda]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
    sd 4:2:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 2d 86 46 c0 00 00 28 00
    end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 763774656
    sd 4:2:0:0: [sda]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
    sd 4:2:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 2d 86 46 e0 00 00 08 00
    end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 763774688
    init[1]: segfault at 7fee7f496e57 ip 00007fee7f496e57 sp 00007ffe92c320e8 error 14
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
    Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64 #1
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81537a84>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
     [<ffffffff813364d6>] ? get_current_tty+0x66/0x70
     [<ffffffff8107cd17>] ? do_exit+0x867/0x870
     [<ffffffff8108ec3d>] ? __sigqueue_free+0x3d/0x50
     [<ffffffff8107cd78>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff81092a26>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x1f6/0x460
     [<ffffffff8100a285>] ? do_signal+0x75/0x870
     [<ffffffff81199299>] ? free_bprm+0x59/0x60
     [<ffffffff8100ab10>] ? do_notify_resume+0x90/0xc0
     [<ffffffff8100bb5c>] ? retint_signal+0x48/0x8c
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kernel-2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64
  • MegaRAID SAS 2208
  • Intel SSD
  • initscripts package earlier than initscripts-9.03.49-1.el6_7.5.

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