Improper Configuration or Corruption of SELinux Configuration File leads to Kernel Panic at Boot
Issue
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A Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.6 panics during early boot, with the following message:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init not tainted 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace [<ffffffff814fd11a>] ? panic+0xa0/0x168 [<ffffffff81070db2>] ? do_exit+0862/0x870 [<ffffffff8117ca75>] ? fput+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff81070c38>] ? do_group_exit+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff81070cc7>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- SELinux enabled
- dracut
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