<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/02/2014 08:39 AM, "Gérald Jean" wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:7760ccecf874.538c3827@videotron.ca" type="cite">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: <pre><code>«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 </code></pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> 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 <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- - Fred "Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible." - Anonymous</pre> </body> </html>