Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found -- Error 13

lvcky · 2022-01-21 23:37:27

Hello, I'm having the same issues as SuperGeniusZeb [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235975] with the (assuming) /tmp folder. I have the identical error code, but I cannot figure out how to get into chroot or grub recovery so I can delete these /tmp files and then do a restart. I also think its the /tmp folders because my LibreWolf installation wouldn't allow me to download PDFs anymore, and I save a lot (student) for research. So, I manually went into the /tmp directory for mozilla and deleted everything, restarted LibreWolf and then relaunched it with the same /tmp is full error code. My boot drive from personal memory has about 180Gb of free space on it, and I have 16gb of RAM so 8gb should be in my /tmp folder according to the post above.I'm not sure if it's necessary but I also have a NVIDIA 2060 Super and an AMD Ryzen 7, I've been on Arch linux for going on 2 years now with a lot of help transitioning from a friend, he has been helping but I need a little more help to get my machine working. He said I should flash an ArchISO on a usb and then reinstall the kernel, he's a smart guy so this would probably be easy for him, but I want to try this /tmp folder solution first before I accidentally destroy all of my data frigging around with downloading a new kernel. I did some pacman -Syu updates, and then yay -Syu updates with some failures, but the computer was on for about a week with only 1 update and after I had my 2nd update attempt that week, following a reboot and not a full shutdown my machine wouldnt turn on again and will populate the Kernel Panic error -13 message that SGZ was getting on his machine.

A few days ago I entered into an Ubuntu live environment, mounted my Arch Linux disk, and then searched for tmp files to delete. I found the tmp folder in the root directory and `rm -rf /tmp` then exited, and tried restarting my machine. I still have the exact same error at SGZ

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Failed to execute /init (error -13)
Starting init: /sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -13)
Starting init: /bin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -13)
Starting init: /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -13)
Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.15.14-1-ARCH #1
Hardware name: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. 350V5C/351V5C/3540VC/3440VC/MP350V5C-A01-US, BIOS P09ABE 07/04/2013
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x5c/0x85
? rest_init+0x50/0xd0
panic+0xe4/0x252
? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
kernel_init+0xe6/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
Kernel Offset: 0x9000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.

** Here is the exact error https://imgur.com/a/jVcBcC8 **

Last edited by lvcky (2022-01-21 23:48:58)

seth · 2022-01-22 22:56:43

/tmp will be cleared on a reboot - the FS only exist in RAM

You're facing a corrupt initramfs, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … _rebooting
Don't forget to mount the /boot partition!

Ftr:

CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.15.14-1-ARCH #1

The linked image says he's on 5.16

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#1 2022-01-21 23:37:27

Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found -- Error 13

#2 2022-01-22 22:56:43

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found -- Error 13

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