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Greenland

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Registered: 2008-02-28

Posts: 12

Kernel panic on Virtualbox after updating

I just installed Arch on Virtualbox 1.5.6, the installation went fine and Arch booted up like it's supposed to. Then I did pacman -Syu after removing /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm. Then I rebooted and now I get "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!" every time.
I'd like to get this sorted before I go and replace Ubuntu with Arch and end up with a broken system.

creslin

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 241

Re: Kernel panic on Virtualbox after updating

Did you choose ftp or cdrom packages during the installation?  If you installed Arch today and you installed packages via ftp, you would already have had an up-to-date system and should not have removed asm, since that was only for upgrading older klibc versions specifically.

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-20 10:16:27)

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Greenland

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Registered: 2008-02-28

Posts: 12

Re: Kernel panic on Virtualbox after updating

I chose the packages from the cd

GerBra

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From: Bingen/Germany

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 215

Re: Kernel panic on Virtualbox after updating

This is a virtualbox bug with kernel 2.6.26. Have a look at: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1875 The problem is solved in virtualbox 2.0. You should upgrade your virtualbox package to >=2.0 on your host system. This kernel panic under Arch occurs ONLY when running in the old virtualbox VM, not on real system.

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Kernel panic on Virtualbox after updating

Add to that another VirtualBox bug for the latest 2.0.2 version: huge logfiles with Arch as guest OS. Supposed to be fixed in 2.0.4.

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