[CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4

Thu Mar 14 15:03:29 UTC 2013
Emmett Culley <emmett at webengineer.com>

On 03/12/2013 05:08 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 04:23 PM, lists-centos wrote:
>>
>>
>> ------------ Original Message ------------
>>> Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 04:05:28 PM -0700
>>> From: Emmett Culley <emmett at webengineer.com>
>>> To: centos at centos.org
>>> Cc:
>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after update to 6.4
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>>
I figured out that in both failure cases the "yum update" was never completed as I had to run yum-complete-transaction on both.  And doing that and re-installing the 358.0.1 had the same boot failures.

Yesterday I did another update which installed the 358.2.1 kernel, which booted.  So I guess I'll attempt to update the host machine.

I don't know what happened, but it seems to be resolved.

Emmett