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breadstickmaniac

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Issue with init not responding or not running

So I got a kernel panic and I assumed it had to do with corrupted packages installation, but chrooting and reinstalling all packages didn't solve it so I actually listened to what it said with "try passing init= option to kernel." think I put in the init= option to kernel parameters right and I got a different output.

I don't know what this error means and I haven't found anything helpful so I'm looking here for help. My hardware is a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s, Intel CPU and integrated graphics.

(Not sure if a link is the best course of action but here we go)
https://panic.archlinux.org/panic_repor … 775846183/

gromit

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Re: Issue with init not responding or not running

I think the report may be truncated, which QR-code reader did you use to extract it? I'm just getting this:

Panic Report
Arch: x86_64
Version: 6.15.2-arch1-1

Could you post the full contents? See https://github.com/kdj0c/panic_report/issues/1 for more details on supported QR code readers, I found "BinaryEye" to work well (on Android) ..

breadstickmaniac

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Re: Issue with init not responding or not running

My bad

gromit

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Re: Issue with init not responding or not running

This is the actual trace:

Panic Report
Arch: x86_64
Version: 6.15.2-arch1-1

[    0.988500] usb usb2: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[    0.988504] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 6.15.2-arch1-1 xhci-hcd
[    0.988509] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:14.0
[    0.988850] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    0.988873] hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[    0.991440] xhci_hcd 0000:3c:00.0: xHCI Host Controller
[    0.991454] xhci_hcd 0000:3c:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[    0.992643] xhci_hcd 0000:3c:00.0: hcc params 0x200077c1 hci version 0x110 quirks 0x0000000200009810
[    0.993214] xhci_hcd 0000:3c:00.0: xHCI Host Controller
[    0.993223] xhci_hcd 0000:3c:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[    0.993231] xhci_hcd 0000:3c:00.0: Host supports USB 3.1 Enhanced SuperSpeed
[    0.993312] usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 6.15
[    0.993320] usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    0.993325] usb usb3: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[    0.993329] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 6.15.2-arch1-1 xhci-hcd
[    0.993333] usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:3c:00.0
[    0.993681] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    0.993704] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[    0.995510] usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 6.15
[    0.995519] usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    0.995525] usb usb4: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[    0.995529] usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 6.15.2-arch1-1 xhci-hcd
[    0.995534] usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:3c:00.0
[    0.995886] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    0.995907] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[    0.997756] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[    0.997772] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[    0.997863] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[    0.999744] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[    0.999830] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[    1.000220] rtc_cmos 00:03: RTC can wake from S4
[    1.001187] rtc_cmos 00:03: registered as rtc0
[    1.001364] rtc_cmos 00:03: setting system clock to 2025-06-18T13:31:03 UTC (1750253463)
[    1.001423] rtc_cmos 00:03: alarms up to one month, y3k, 242 bytes nvram
[    1.002226] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
[    1.002366] intel_pstate: Intel P-state driver initializing
[    1.002899] intel_pstate: HWP enabled
[    1.003215] simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] Registered 1 planes with drm panic
[    1.003217] [drm] Initialized simpledrm 1.0.0 for simple-framebuffer.0 on minor 0
[    1.004854] fbcon: Deferring console take-over
[    1.004859] simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] fb0: simpledrmdrmfb frame buffer device
[    1.004957] hid: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    1.004980] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.004982] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.005042] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service
[    1.005154] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family
[    1.005911] Segment Routing with IPv6
[    1.005912] RPL Segment Routing with IPv6
[    1.005920] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6
[    1.005937] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
[    1.006422] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[    1.006527] microcode: Current revision: 0x000000f6
[    1.006529] microcode: Updated early from: 0x00000096
[    1.008154] IPI shorthand broadcast: enabled
[    1.010213] sched_clock: Marking stable (1003000801, 7107176)->(1119656418, -109548441)
[    1.010402] registered taskstats version 1
[    1.012840] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[    1.015603] Loaded X.509 cert 'Build time autogenerated kernel key: 5ab55bb3f12135d57a5f786e88940cf89ec11704'
[    1.017765] Demotion targets for Node 0: null
[    1.017945] Key type .fscrypt registered
[    1.017947] Key type fscrypt-provisioning registered
[    1.018508] Btrfs loaded, zoned=yes, fsverity=yes
[    1.018540] Key type big_key registered
[    1.019268] integrity: Loading X.509 certificate: UEFI:db
[    1.019286] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Lenovo Ltd.: ThinkPad Product CA 2012: 838b1f54c1550463f45f98700640f11069265949'
[    1.019287] integrity: Loading X.509 certificate: UEFI:db
[    1.019297] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Lenovo UEFI CA 2014: 4b91a68732eaefdd2c8ffffc6b027ec3449e9c8f'
[    1.019298] integrity: Loading X.509 certificate: UEFI:db
[    1.019312] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011: 13adbf4309bd82709c8cd54f316ed522988a1bd4'
[    1.019313] integrity: Loading X.509 certificate: UEFI:db
[    1.019325] integrity: Loaded X.509 cert 'Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011: a92902398e16c49778cd90f99e4f9ae17c55af53'
[    1.020682] PM:   Magic number: 13:209:534
[    1.020700] tty ttyS14: hash matches
[    1.020702] port serial8250:0.13: hash matches
[    1.021781] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
[    1.025965] clk: Disabling unused clocks
[    1.025967] PM: genpd: Disabling unused power domains
[    1.027005] Freeing unused decrypted memory: 2028K
[    1.027628] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 4636K
[    1.027735] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 38912k
[    1.028155] Freeing unused kernel image (text/rodata gap) memory: 796K
[    1.028550] Freeing unused kernel image (rodata/data gap) memory: 1920K
[    1.069938] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
[    1.069942] rodata_test: all tests were successful
[    1.069943] x86/mm: Checking user space page tables
[    1.109604] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
[    1.109607] Run /init as init process
[    1.109609]   with arguments:
[    1.109610]     /init
[    1.109611]     option
[    1.109612]   with environment:
[    1.109613]     HOME=/
[    1.109614]     TERM=linux
[    1.109615]     BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux
[    1.109660] Failed to execute /init (error -8)
[    1.109662] Run  as init process
[    1.109663]   with arguments:
[    1.109664]     
[    1.109665]     option
[    1.109665]   with environment:
[    1.109666]     HOME=/
[    1.109667]     TERM=linux
[    1.109668]     BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux
[    1.109671] Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init  failed (error -13).
[    1.109675] fbcon: Taking over console
[    1.109681] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.15.2-arch1-1 #1 PREEMPT(full)  806378c57c3c21a60e39b7d20019ada706b7af8b
[    1.109687] Hardware name: LENOVO 20L8S4GV00/20L8S4GV00, BIOS N22ET46W (1.23 ) 06/19/2018
[    1.109691] Call Trace:
[    1.109693]  <TASK>
[    1.109695]  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
[    1.109702]  panic+0x117/0x2da
[    1.109707]  ? kernel_execve+0xb4/0x140
[    1.109711]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[    1.109716]  kernel_init+0xe5/0x140
[    1.109719]  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
[    1.109723]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[    1.109727]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[    1.109732]  </TASK>
[    1.109785] Kernel Offset: 0x32400000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)

Scimmia

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Re: Issue with init not responding or not running

So if it's /init, that's in the initramfs. Make sure your /boot partition is mounted and regenerate it (or reinstall the kernel).