Ubuntu :: 10.04 Kernel Panic-not Syncing And Failed Memory Test?
Aug 7, 2011
this is a dual boot XP/UBUNTU 10.04. while using XP, the computer rebooted itself. the GRUB's screen appears, but neither the ubuntu nor the XP option works.
Ubuntu gives this error message:
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0.797795 kernel panic-not syncing: vfs: enable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
XP hangs on a black screen... and that is it (thanks for support windows!) UBUNTU 10.04 live CD hangs when the 5 processing dots appears bellow the ubuntu logo. hangs the same way with the processing bar in UBUNTU 9.04 live CD. memory check (memtest86) is showing thousands of errors right from the start.
I'm using openSUSE 11. I'hv tried to upgrade it to 11.1 with a x86_64 installation DVD (as I did earlier), but it failed. It showed the following message:
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eventually same type of problem happend when I was trying with fedora 10... fedora 9 and openSUSE 11 install smoothly in my 64 bit machine (compaq SR1730IL, Intel pentium 4, 524 and 1GB DDR2 RAM)
I am getting an error when I try to boot my ubuntu 10.4 system (64 bit). Error:Kernel Panic- Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0).I installed Sbackup and tried to create a backup of the home, var, usr/local folders. I started the backup and it ran for about 30 minutes then I got a message from the system that indicated that I was out of hard drive space, then the system froze. I restarted the system and then I got the above mentioned error.
I get this Kernel Panic when I start my PC once in a while. After a restart or two it boots normally. I have included a screenshot taken with my camera. Anybody have any idea what this is and how I can get rid of it?
I tried using gparted on a live cd to shrink a windows partition to make room for ubuntu. Then windows failed to boot. I deleted the entire disk and tried to install ubuntu 10.10. It seemed to install fine, but now when I start up I get
[ 0.869364] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't look good. I saw some other posts about this error, and people are talking about lilo. I'm not sure what to do
In my internal disk i had installed 10.04 and 10.10. 2 days ago after a restart my system did not boot and i got the message: kernel panic:not syncing VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0).
For 2 days i tried to solve the problem without success and today i installed 10.04 in the entire internal disk but the problem(message above mentioned) remains.
the result of the sudo fdisk -l command is this
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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sdb is my external hard drive in whick i also had 10.04 installed but never used it.
I've been using Linux for a few years, but this is my first time using Fedora. I installed it on an old computer last night and rebooted, and everything seemed good. I let it start to install updates, but after they were about half done I stopped it, turned the computer off, and went to bed. I know that was stupid of me, and I'm afraid it screwed something up because now when I boot I get the error "kernel panic-not syncing VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)".
When I looked up the error on Google it seems a lot of people get this after installing a kernel incorrectly, so could stopping the update in the middle perhaps screwed with my kernel? Could I simply chroot into the installation from the live CD and run 'yum install kernel26'?
I tried to upgrade Empathy from 2.28 to 2.30 via Synaptic but the upgrade always failed as there were some errors to do with the dependencies (libglib2.0* and others). The dependency issues were odd as it told me that Empathy wanted to install files that were older than the existing ones. So I decided to uninstall Empathy and all its dependencies, and re-install the whole (updated) package and it's dependencies from scratch via Synaptic. After the install, Ubuntu told me that there were broken packages and Update Manager kept on popping up asking me to run a partial upgrade to fix these broken packages. Well, the partial upgrade also failed (due to the same dependency issues , I suspect) so I decided that I'll run a full system update (as Update Manager had being bugging me prior to my failed Empathy upgrade). 486 Mb later, Ubuntu no longer wants to boot - it freezes on the splash screen.
When I start it in recovery mode, it spews out the various processes being loaded. Trying to run earlier kernels (2.6.31-19 / 17 / 14) from GRUB, in both normal mode and recovery mode does not seem to help.I am running Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic.
a) Is the problem to do with the kernel - did the update try to update the kernel as I note that there is a new stable release (2.6.33-2)? However, GRUB still indicates that the kernel is 2.6.31-20. b) Would updating the kernel to 2.6.33-2 help? If so, how do I do this? c) Is the problem, as I suspect, to do with the libglib* files? If so, how do I fix it?
I've just started using Linux Ubuntu. I had a frightening error message, I don't know why. But after browsing some replies to something similar on this site, I simply opened a previous session and found that all worked fine and I hadn't even lost any of my downloads and adaptations. ś Yes I've still got my third level key and everything.
Problems arose when I updated today, after not booting(updating) for a couple of days. Message originally said "Kernel panic - not syncing: UFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8, 1)"
I used ubuntu in my ARM board. but now i rebooted it says that "kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" i have to reinstall my OS or any other way to get retify?
Our email server and fax server configured in a Linux server.2day mornin onwards i am getting the error.kernal panic -not syncing : attempted to kill init.
Bootin "powerserver"(Centos-4 i386)-up( 2.6.9-11 EL) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0*fd
How to resolve "kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init" problem in Linux?? And why this error occurs? In my case, this error occurs when i boot my computer and after this error my computer goes on rebooting..
am trying to interface ade7758(adc) to at91sam9261...i have written a sample code which registers an spi driver and sends an address to ade7758 and receives a data...every thing is fine.My device is registered but kernel is giving a crash message....below is the message....
After update to 5.3 and reboot I got this error. googling for it I found that it is a known bug in kernel REHL 5.3 and there is also a patch for it [URL]. I am very new to linux, so how to apply, or just wait for a new kernel?
exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!! : 2 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! My server is at remote end which I access through Public IP.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 through Windows 7 and got this message today...
kernel panic- not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,1)
Is there a way to fix this? (and I'm going to need really simple instructions here)
Also I tried to uninstall ubuntu in windows 7 and then reinstall but it will not let me. it says that an error has occurred: The system cannot find the file specified stdout=
I was updating my Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala when i decided that i should reboot my computer. All the downloads were done. When i rebooted it booted in normally but when it got into the kernel loading part, Linux-Bzimage and initrd loaded fine, But then Kernel Panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root as fs on unknown-block (8,1) came up. This is a wubi install also, and i have never had any troubles before.
[ 0.719079] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
I was installing updates on my Ubuntu 9.10 and one of them was the upgrade to the new 10.04 LTS. So I said, okay, great! Installed the updates, upgraded my Ubuntu (even though it informed me that some packages had errors). I restarted my PC and then I get this error. I don't know what happened, but that's the error I get when I turn my PC on. Nothing else happened.
PC Specs Compaq, 32-bit processor, 2GB ram, ATI Xpress 200 graphics, Realtek soundcard. PS/2 keyboard, USB mouse. SyncMaster 920Nx flat-panel monitor.
What I did to try to fix this, regardless of it not worked:I tried resetting the BIOS. Didn't do anything. I still get the error.Tried running from CD. It didn't detect the CD or anything, I guess, because I still get the error and it didn't let me run the CD.
I screwed up trying to install a new kernel Now, when I try to boot up, it says: kernel panic not syncing VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown block My system:
-encrypted LVM with encrypted home -10.04 ubuntu system
What's the easiest/fastest way recover the documents on my encrypted home folder? I have the home folder encryption passphrase. I just want to recover and backup those documents, even if after that I have to reinstall the whole system. I have a live CD and also another 10.04 system on a second computer. I've managed to mount the hard drive in this second system and see everything on it, except the contents of the user home folder (Private). Everything I see on the internet is about encrypted home, but not top of a LVM encrypted.
I am currently running the latest version of Ubuntu (10.10 I believe) and recently installed a new, vanilla 2.6.37.1 kernel on my machine. Then, all I did was run update-grub (I'm not sure if this is correct as I am new to GRUB2 :/), rebooted and tried to boot into the new kernel, but I got the above error on boot. Does anyone know why this is happening?
Today I was upgrading my netbook with Ubuntu 10.10 on it to 11.04 via the Update Manager. I got a few errors and the Update Manager seemed like it wasn't continuing, so decided to exit it. It didn't respond so after a while I decided to restart the netbook. However the on/off/standby/restart, etc. button in the top right wasn't responding either, so I decided to force a shutdown with the power button on my netbook. Now Ubuntu doesn't start up, and gives me an error along the lines of:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu Now could I in some way repair my Ubuntu installation while still keeping the files I already have on my computer? Maybe via booting from a flash drive or something...?
I was able to copy the iso file and tried the installation however I stubbled upon the same problem I had when I tried installing Fedora 11. The message I received was "(1) (0.048001) MP-BIOS bug:8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC (2) (0.064001) Kernel panic-not syncing:IO-APIC + timer doesn't work Book with apic debug and send a report. Then try booting with the 'no apic-option'.
I had FC10 working nicely but decided to move to FC12 to be able to use the latest and greatest... Turning out to be nightmare!
My HDD is partitioned into three:
(hd0, 0) 100MB : used to be original /boot for FC 10 (hd0, 1) 120GB : /home (hd0, 2) 30GB : / > First thing tried: preupgrade
Using this preupgrade setup happend and asked to reboot. However, upton reboot got locked in stage2. So this option was abondoned.
> Second thing tried: installation CDs
Using this method formatted (hd0,2) and installed FC12 on (hd0,2). However, did not change anything on (hd0,0). This still held all the upgrade information from the previous trial. Now, when I rebooted after the install there was a kernel panic with error "kernel panic not syncing vfs". Thinking it might due to the (hd0,0) partition and errors in my install, I abandoned this.
> Third thing tried: installation CDs
Using this method I formatted both (hd0,0) and (hd0,2). The install was similar to above but now (hd0,0) was also formatted and after install was empty. But upton reboot I still got the "kernel panic not syncing vfs" message. I dug through google and saw references to problems in grub.conf and lo behold there were problems with my grub.conf. I don't see the initrd line at all nor do I see the initrd*.img file in my disk. The grub.conf is:
After searching other similar posts I have not found an answer. I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.4.1 after reformatting the computer from the previous Ubuntu Edgy. When rebooting get this msg (in title). I used the live CD to get into the grub files to see if I could ad 'noacip' option. But was looking for 'menu lst' file and found none. Currently when I boot I don't get any menu list and therefore no options at the bottom. Should be an easy problem to resolve Powerspec B364/160gb/856Ram/ATI raedon 200 express onboard/Geforce 8400GS PCI-e
I just imaged my RHEL 4 system that was running on a Dell Poweredge 2950 server using Acronis software and I restored the image to a VmWare virtual machine.
Dell Poweredge 2950 - RAID 5 VmWare - using ESX 4.0 OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES Update 5 x64 kernel - 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp
I'm getting the following when I try to boot on the new virtual machine. I'm thinking it has to do with the fact that it's new hardware and it's having trouble either finding the right drivers or pointing to the correct place.
"No Volume Groups found Volume Group "Volgroup00" not found ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid505) mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" I was able to boot into Linux rescue mode using the boot CD. Then I typed: #chroot /mnt/sysimage
Here's all the info from the commands I typed: #ldd /bin/bash libtermcap.so.2 => /lib64/libtermcap.so.2 libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-89.EL x86_64 #df -h ....
I've tried the following: 1. mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL.img 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL 2. modified the device.map to point to /dev/sda3 3. changed the SCSI controller in Vmware to use BusLogic instead of LSI Logic. (didn't work because I'm running 64 bit.. gave me an error message) 4. grub-install --recheck /dev/sda 5. tried booting to differerent OS versions (i.e. 2.6.9-55.0.6, etc.). I tried all of the versions listed in the boot menu. None of these worked.
