Kernel panic at boot?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:27:17PM +0200, Jef Driesen wrote:
> Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> > Jef Driesen wrote:
> >> When I boot my Ubuntu desktop, the system often freezes at the point 
> >> where the splash screen appears (in a very early stage of the boot 
> >> sequence, because the progress bar is almost empty). When this happens, 
> >> the LEDs on my keyboard start flashing and I believe this indicates a 
> >> kernel panic.
> >>
> >> This happens quite often and as a result I often have to reset the 
> >> machine multiple times to make it boot. But once the system is finally 
> >> running, it works just fine.
> >>
> >> How do I find out what is causing the problem?
> > 
> > Detailed logs are written on boot.  You can view these logs by clicking 
> > on "System -> Administration -> System Log".  Click on "kern.log" and 
> > "messages" in the tree on the left.  That should give you a start on 
> > finding the problem.
> 
> I can't find anything useful in the log files. I think the kernel panic 
> occurs before anything is written to the logs? I booted without "quiet 
> splash" and made a photo of my display:
> 
> http://users.telenet.be/sacn/tmp/kernel_panic.jpg

The "run-init: nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty" line
looks bad to me.  The kernel panic happens because the initramfs script
exits (because of that error) instead of passing control to the real
/sbin/init.

I suggest you file a bug report at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs

Marius Gedminas
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