[xubuntu-users] Kernel panic.

[Fred Roller]

On 06/02/2014 08:39 AM, "Gérald Jean" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Xubuntu 13.10 on an older machine, mostly runs fine. 
> Yesterday though  Xubuntu crashed two times while I had Chromium, 
> Thunderbird and Emacs opened.  I quit trying to run the machine after 
> that.  Both times I got the message:
>
> |«kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init! exitcode 0x?????????»
>
> Can't quite remember the exit code but something similar to the above with the "?" replaced by many "0" and one, or more,
> numbers at the end.
>
> I did a little Google search this morning but what I found is mostly over my head.  I gathered it could be from a
> corrupted file system, or have something to do with SELinux???
>
> Anyone could explain in simple terms how to diagnostic the problem and, if possible, how to fix it.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Gérald
> |
>
If it was working and you are suddenly getting these panics and have not 
made any changes then try checking hardware.  First you can check the 
hard drives' file system with fsck from terminal. Perhaps booting to a 
live distro or rescue disk would be best since you don't want to run 
this on a mounted disk but non-the-less:

sudo fsck -nCc -l badblocks /dev/[harddrive]

or

shutdown -r -F now

the latter will restart the system and run fsck in interactive mode and 
from what I understand is the best way to do this.  And that will take 
care checking the file system.  Next check the RAM with your install cd 
I believe has a check memory option.  I know unetbootin built 
thumbdrives have this option.

HIH

-- 
- Fred

"Only those who can see the invisible
can accomplish the impossible." - Anonymous

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