[Bug 1269405] Re: Kernel Panic running 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'

[James Hunt]

Hi Aurel,

Do you know if you have any chroots on your system?

To help us diagnose the issue, please boot your system with the
following changes to the kernel command-line:

- add "--debug"
- remove "quiet"
- remove "splash"

Then,

- Login via control-alt-f1
- Download get_state.sh from http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/upstart/scripts/get_state.sh
- Run the script as:
  sudo bash get_state.sh | json_pp > /root/upstart.state  && sync

- Attach /root/upstart.state to this bug if possible.

- Force upstart to restart (this may be what is causing the panic):

   sudo telinit u

- Attach a photograph of the screen if an error is shown.

Thanks!

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Title:
  Kernel Panic running 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  My system, 64-bit Trusty, is throwing kernel panic when running 'sudo
  dpkg --configure -a'.

  dpkg 1.17.1ubuntu1

  "--no-log" in grub didn't help.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: upstart 1.11-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-2.17-generic 3.13.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-2-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Jan 15 14:45:11 2014
  ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-2-generic root=UUID=bdeb49ec-f78d-4aa9-b948-d857b8a8fd57 ro quiet splash --no-log vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-20 (26 days ago)
  UpstartBugCategory: System
  UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.11)
  UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.11)
  modified.conffile..etc.at.deny: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/at.deny']
  modified.conffile..etc.default.whoopsie: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.rsyslog.conf: [modified]
  modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.pulseaudio.desktop: [modified]
  mtime.conffile..etc.default.whoopsie: 2013-12-20T14:42:32.340664
  mtime.conffile..etc.rsyslog.conf: 2014-01-15T11:41:20.325384
  mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.pulseaudio.desktop: 2013-06-14T10:22:10.739084

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