kernel panic happened at the time of boot after yum update.
Issue
- Kernel panic happened on our customer's system after updating packages with yum.
- This problem happened on two systems at the same time.
Booting 'Red Hat Enterpirse Lnux Server (2.6.18-128.el5PAE)' root(hd0,0) filesystem type is ext2fs, parttion type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5PAE ro root=LABEL=/ quitet apic=bigsmp [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1bb6f4] initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.el5PAE.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x37dab000, 0x244152 bytes] Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range Redhat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting insmod: error inserting '/lib/ext3.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module insmod: error inserting '/lib/megaraid_sas.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module insmod: error inserting '/lib/ahci.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module insmod: error inserting '/lib/usb-storage.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module insmod: error inserting '/lib/dm-region_hash.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module insmod: error inserting '/lib/dm-raid45.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module mount:could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot:moving /dev failed: No such file or directory setuproot:error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot:error mounting /sys: No such file or directory switchroot: mount farled: No such file or directory kernale panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init! - In both systems, initrd file was re-created on 26 January.
- But kernel package was not be updated and it is unknown why the initrd file were re-created.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
- kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.x86_64
- kmod-megaraid_sas-00.00.04.01n-RH1.x86_64
- kernel-2.6.18-128.el5, kernel-2.6.18-128.el5PAE.i686
- kmod-megaraid_sas-00.00.04.01n-RH1-i686, kmod-megaraid_sas-PAE-00.00.04.01n-RH1-i686
- megaraid_sas-kmod-common-00.00.04.01n-RH1.noarch
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