Shutdown kernel panic

Shutdown kernel panic

[Anthony Gorecki]

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Using RunIt on kernel 2.6.1, I receive the following output at the end of 
executing init 0:

- - runit: leave stage: /etc/runit/3
- - runit: sending KILL signal to all processes...
- - runit: power off...
Power down.
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

In addition, with a "ps -A" command after all processes are supposedly already 
terminated, all of the services seem to be still running, preventing me from 
unmounting the root partition before shutting down. Any ideas?


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Best Regards,

Anthony Gorecki
"Freedom through knowledge."
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Re: Shutdown kernel panic

[Gerrit Pape]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:27:17PM -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> Using RunIt on kernel 2.6.1, I receive the following output at the end of 
> executing init 0:
> 
> - - runit: leave stage: /etc/runit/3
> - - runit: sending KILL signal to all processes...
> - - runit: power off...
> Power down.
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

I've seen this too with older Linux kernels.  I guess it depends on the
kernel configuration.  It shouldn't hurt much, at this time everything
is ready for power off.

> In addition, with a "ps -A" command after all processes are supposedly
> already terminated, all of the services seem to be still running,
> preventing me from unmounting the root partition before shutting down.
> Any ideas?

How did you run ps -A?  If you still have a login, there still are
services running.  Stage 3 normally waits for services to terminate (for
getty services until you log out), or kills them after a timeout if
they're still there.

If your filesystems are not unmounted cleanly, there most probably is
something wrong with your stage 3 script.

Regards, Gerrit.