kernel panic - Attempted to kill init

abhijeet tripathi abhijeet.tripathy at yahoo.co.in
Mon Nov 16 02:29:34 EST 2009 

Hello,

I am trying to do a nfs booting of arm-pb1176 but I am getting kernel panic "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!".
I checked my filesystem and it has "/sbin/init". Please let me know if I am missing anything. Below is the console logs:

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RealView_PB # tftpboot
LAN9118 ethernet chip detected
TFTP from server 10.170.0.51; our IP address is 10.170.0.53
Filename 'at_uImage_pb1176'.
Load address: 0x7fc0
Loading: #################################################################
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done
Bytes transferred = 2483036 (25e35c hex)
RealView_PB # bootm
## Booting image at 00007fc0 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-2.6.28-arm1
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    2482972 Bytes =  2.4 MB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux..........................................................................................................
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.28-arm1 (root at xscale) (gcc version 4.2.0) #20 PREEMPT Sat No9
CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [410fb764] revision 4 (ARMv7), cr=00c5387f
CPU: VIPT aliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
Machine: ARM-RealView PB1176
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
Kernel command line: mem=128M console=ttyAMA0,38400n8 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs rw
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
allocated 655360 bytes of page_cgroup
please try cgroup_disable=memory option if you don't want
Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
Memory: 123576KB available (4636K code, 737K data, 152K init)
SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay loop... 226.91 BogoMIPS (lpj=1134592)
Security Framework initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Initializing cgroup subsys ns
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
Initializing cgroup subsys memory
Initializing cgroup subsys devices
Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
net_namespace: 768 bytes
regulator: core version 0.5
NET: Registered protocol family 16
L2X0 cache controller enabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(0.480:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
msgmni has been set to 241
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Serial: AMBA driver
Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
dev:f1: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x1010c000 (irq = 50) is a AMBA/PL011
console [ttyAMA0] enabled
dev:f2: ttyAMA1 at MMIO 0x1010d000 (irq = 51) is a AMBA/PL011
dev:f3: ttyAMA2 at MMIO 0x1010e000 (irq = 52) is a AMBA/PL011
fpga:09: ttyAMA3 at MMIO 0x1010f000 (irq = 53) is a AMBA/PL011
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
smsc911x: Driver version 2008-10-21.
smsc911x-mdio: probed
eth0: attached PHY driver [SMSC LAN911x Internal PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01, irq=-1)
net eth0: MAC Address: 00:02:f7:00:2f:e7
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (2048 buckets, 8192 max)
CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel paramater, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 20 variant b rev 5
registered taskstats version 1
net eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xc8880000, IRQ: 74
Sending DHCP requests .., OK
IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 10.170.0.51, my address is 10.170.0.53
IP-Config: Complete:
     device=eth0, addr=10.170.0.53, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=10.170.0.4,
     host=10.170.0.53, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=10.170.0.51, rootserver=10.170.0.51, rootpath=/mnt/opt/fs
md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.170.0.51
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 10.170.0.51
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 152K
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Dumping ftrace buffer:
   (ftrace buffer empty)
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Thanks in advance.

--regards,
Abhijeet


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