On 03/13/2013 04:19 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2013-03-13, Emmett Culley <emmett at webengineer.com> wrote: > > (...) > >> So let's start again. >> >> Kernel panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init! >> Pid: 1, comm: init not tainted: 2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1 >> >> After yum upgrade --enablerepo=epel on two of five machines, one of which is the host for the three VM's that succeeded and the one that failed, just as the host. >> >> I have a screen shot of that VM's boot failure, but I don't know the proper way to include it in a post. >> >> I've uninstalled that kernel and ran yum upgrade again, it still fails on that kernel, on both the host and the VM. I suppose the good thing is that it happened on a VM guest that is not critical, so I don't have to experiment with the host that has four important guests running on it. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Emmett > I saw this problem on one machine I upgraded from 6.3 to 6.4 recently. > When I boot it in verbose mode I see the following messages: > > dracut: /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found > dracut: Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver > > which led me to the following bug report: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6304 > > Just today kernel 2.6.32-358.2.1 became available. The problem is still > present, but only on the same one machine. > This file exists in the kernel: /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko Somehow it seems that in some machines it is not making it into the initrd. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130313/d942635d/attachment-0005.sig>