Kernel Panic on Dell Inspiron 8600

linuxpicaxe · 03-06-2011, 01:15 PM

Hi all!

I'm having problems with a laptop I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on as it keeps going into kernel panic mode.

I believe it may be to do with the ram but im not sure how to problem solve it all the way down to one issue. Sometime i can use the laptop fine for ages, sometimes it dies just on booting up.

Today i booted into recovery mode and chose the resume normal boot option presenting me with:

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Ubuntu 10.10 alex-Inspiron-8600 tty1

alex-Inspiron-8600 login: ALEX
Password:

This is when it all went wrong and i got the error outputted:

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Ubuntu 10.10 alex-Inspiron-8600 tty1

alex-Inspiron-8600 login: ALEX
Password: [ 2305.021103] init[1]: segfault at ffe76d10 ip 00e68774 sp bf873c58 error 4 in libnih.so.1.0.0[e65000+11000]
[ 2305.099008] init[1]: segfault at ffe76d10 ip 00e68774 sp bf873508 error 4 in libnih.so.1.0.0[e65000+11000]
[ 2305.099008] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 2305.099084] pid:1, comm: init Tainted: P		2.6.35-27-generic #48-Ubuntu
[ 2305.099173] Call Trace:
[ 2305.099247]  [<c05c81a3>] ? printk+0x2d/0x32
[ 2305.099317]  [<c05c80fc>] panic+0x5a/0xd4
[ 2305.099387]  [<c014db04>] forget_original_parent+0x2e4/0x2f0
[ 2305.099459]  [<c014db23>] exit_notify+0x13/0x170
[ 2305.099527]  [<c014f40c>] do_exit+0x17c/0x340
[ 2305.099595]  [<c014f60e>] do_group_exit+0x3e/0xa0
[ 2305.099667]  [<c015e641>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1c1/0x420
[ 2305.099742]  [<c01e0b55>] ? __free_pages+0x35/0x40
[ 2305.099812]  [<c0102eb1>] do_signal+0x71/0x140
[ 2305.099885]  [<c012e0a7>] ? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x17/0x20
[ 2305.099959]  [<c05ce2d8>] ? do_page_fault+0x378/440
[ 2305.100098]  [<c04e9380>] ? sys_socketcall+0x1e0/0x2a0
[ 2305.100171]  [<c05cdf60>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x440
[ 2305.100241]  [<c0102fe5>] do_notify_resume+0x65/0x80
[ 2305.100311]  [<c05caeac>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x1b

I think it may be a ram error personally but stand to be corrected.

Other error lines that i have picked out are:

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init: Caught segmentation fault, core dumped

and

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init: rsyslog main process (735) killed by SEGV signal

These came up when I was running system tests and it just crashed to the root shell.
Whether these are relevant I don't know

Any help at all is appreciated

Thanks guys

Alex

rokytnji · 03-06-2011, 02:42 PM

Well. Just in case it is not ram related (I don't run Ubuntu on my Netbooks).

You might do a file system check like this user did in this thread.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3/#post4275345

linuxpicaxe · 03-06-2011, 02:48 PM

Thanks for the response but doesn't seem to be that :/

I have just downloaded puppy linux and installed it to a memory stick so its running totally off of memory stick and the ram. But on boot up it gets so far and then displays:

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Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem...Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

... It has me very puzzled

And its gradually getting worse/more frequent!!!!