I'm in the process of updating all my CentOS systems from 4.4 to 4.5. One of the systems is spewing out the following error during the reboot:
INIT: version 2.85 booting INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0x420! sleeping for 30 seconds
This happens so early in the boot I have no idea what I can do to debug this. I suspect it is a hardware problem and not something caused by the "yum update", but I thought I'd mention it here in case anyone else has any ideas.
Update: I originally sent this message out yesterday, but my email client used the wrong account so it didn't get posted to the list. I've since re-imaged this system (thank you Red Hat for Kickstart), but I am still curious what could have possibly caused this and any debugging techniques that can be used in this situation.
On a vaguely related note, I also have pondered the following in the past; if you observe a system booting, you'll see all the "[OK]" and "[FAILED]" messages. Is there a log somewhere where you can check later on which services were started and which passed or failed?
Thanks, Alfred