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Bug 826600

Summary:	kernel panic at shutdown
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Piotr Golonka <piotr>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	17	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, maurizio.antillon
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-05-30 15:15:27 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Piotr Golonka 2012-05-30 15:10:49 UTC

Description of problem:

When trying to shut down the system, the machine gets to the text mode and the following is printed on the screen:

/shutdown: 33 /shutdown: sh not found
[ timestamp ] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init!
[ timestamp ] Pid: 1, comm: shutdown not tainted 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 #1
[ timestamp ] Call Trace:
[ timestamp ] [addr] panic+0xba/0x1cd
[ timestamp ] [addr] do_exit+0x853/0x890
[ timestamp ] [addr] do_group_exit+0x42/0xa0
[ timestamp ] [addr] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[ timestamp ] [addr] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ timestamp ] panic occured, switching back to text console

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Clean install of Fedora 17, KDE-Spin, installed to hard disk

How reproducible:
Shut down the system using the "K" menu on graphical session

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
machine hanging with kernel panic

Expected results:
shutdown of the machine

Additional info:

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-05-30 15:15:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> When trying to shut down the system, the machine gets to the text mode and
> the following is printed on the screen:
> 
> /shutdown: 33 /shutdown: sh not found
> [ timestamp ] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempt to kill init!
> [ timestamp ] Pid: 1, comm: shutdown not tainted 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 #1
> [ timestamp ] Call Trace:
> [ timestamp ] [addr] panic+0xba/0x1cd
> [ timestamp ] [addr] do_exit+0x853/0x890
> [ timestamp ] [addr] do_group_exit+0x42/0xa0
> [ timestamp ] [addr] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
> [ timestamp ] [addr] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [ timestamp ] panic occured, switching back to text console
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> Clean install of Fedora 17, KDE-Spin, installed to hard disk

If this was a clean install, you wouldn't be using the F16 kernel which is what the oops above is from.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 820351 ***

Comment 2 Piotr Golonka 2012-05-30 15:39:11 UTC

This is in the system where I have two installations: F16 and F17 sharing the same /boot partition.
Indeed, there are F16 and F17 kernels there, and strange enough the kernel for F17 is actually *newer* than the one for F17...

Cannot upgrade the kernel for F17 for the time being, because the network interface was not detected (will submit another bug)

Comment 3 Piotr Golonka 2012-05-31 07:39:46 UTC

Hi there,
please have a look at #826866, which explains why the bad kernel was booted (likely a problem with grub2).

After correcting the grub.cfg and booting the proper F17 kernel everything went back to order and the problem is gone.

cheers,
 Piotr