[CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4

[Emmett Culley]

On 03/12/2013 01:48 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Emmett Culley <emmett at webengineer.com> wrote:
>> After successfully updating three CentOS 6.3 VM guests to 6.4 I decided to update the host as well.  And it failed to boot.
>>
>> Kernel panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>> Pid: 1, comm: init not tainted: 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1
> 
> At the time of this writing, CentOS kernel 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6 is not
> out yet. Where did you get this one from ???  Did you build it
> yourself?
> 
> Akemi

I did yum update --enablerepo=epel.  I just checked and it appears that kernel was from the updates repo:

[~]# yum list kernel
Installed Packages
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6   @updates
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6  @updates
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6  @updates
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6  @updates
kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-358.0.1.el6   @updates

[~]# rpm -qa |grep kernel
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.8-15.el6.centos.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64
dracut-kernel-004-303.el6.noarch
kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-headers-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.noarch
kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.9-15.el6.centos.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64

This is from a VM that succeeded with the update to the "359" kernel.  There are three more like that.

Emmett