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ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 38

Kernel upgrade (2.6.28) - Kernel panic

Hi All,
Can't boot into my Arch system, I would really thank anyone who can help!

I upgraded the kernel, and after rebooting i get the following error (Fallback doesn't boot as well):

Loading initramfs...
/init: 36: replace: not found
/init: 36: replace: not found
export: 36: bad variable name.
Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill Init!

Many many thanks,
A.J.

kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: Kernel upgrade (2.6.28) - Kernel panic

check that error again... the initcpio shell can't find 'replace'.  i'd guess that means your initcpio build got borked... did you get any distressing output from pacman when you upgraded to 2.6.28?

if rebuilding your initcpio doesn't do the trick, and you can't suss it out on your own, please paste your mkinitcpio.conf and the output of pacman -S kernel26.

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ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 38

Re: Kernel upgrade (2.6.28) - Kernel panic

Hi,
Chrooted from a Live-USB, tried reinstalling the kernel, and rerun mkinitcpio, nothing seemed to work.
I ended up reinstall Arch...

One problem still remains though - Nvidia-180 under the new kernel.
X doesn't work. All I get is a black screen, keys and mouse are nonresponsive, and the CPU sounds like it's spiking through the roof.

A look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log says:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
(II) NVIDIA(0):     may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X ....

I currently using a basic xorg.conf...

Any clues?

Thanks.

ajschwartz

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Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 38

Re: Kernel upgrade (2.6.28) - Kernel panic

Moved to another post (A new problem).
Kernel panic resolved by Reinstalling Arch

PandaMine

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 25

Re: Kernel upgrade (2.6.28) - Kernel panic

Im having this exact same problem, is there any solution to this?

I really don't want to have to install archlinux again

Last edited by PandaMine (2009-01-28 20:46:20)

PandaMine

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 25

Re: Kernel upgrade (2.6.28) - Kernel panic

Problem solved, it seems that there was an extra space in the grubs menu.lst

On earlier versions it mustn't have made a difference, however an update caused that to be a syntax error (now its working fine)