[Bug 155689] Re: nuking initramfs contents: Kernel panic at boot

[iLugo]

I am having this problem intermittently.  I have Ubuntu 10.10 on an Asus
EEE PC 1005 HA (Hard drive), 1 Mb of RAM, dual booting with Windows XP.
This has been updated from Ubuntu 10.04 (which was all OK) just a week
ago, so this might possibly related to the upgrade (?).

Additional info: this error on cold boot happened after having had an X
crash also during bootup, where the screen became blank after showing
the plymouth splash for only one second, then some lines with errors for
a fraction of a second, then frozen. Needed to use power button.  Then
after a couple of times same failure, the kernel panic error:

run-init: nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty
[  2.768910] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
udevd-work[100]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/sda7, 10) failed: No such file or directory.

There are other people affected recently - see the duplicates of this
bug.  Dear devs, any comment?

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Title:
  nuking initramfs contents: Kernel panic at boot

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  When booting my Ubuntu Gutsy desktop (kernel 2.6.22-14-generic), I
  often get a kernel panic. This happens quite often (almost at every
  boot) and as a result I have to reset the machine multiple times to
  make it boot. But once the system is finally running, it works just
  fine. (I had exactly the same problem with Ubuntu Feisty and hoped the
  upgrade would have fix the problem.)

  The last two messages on the screen are:

  run-init: nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty
  [24.805436] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

  I can provide more information if required, but I don't know where to
  look.

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