[arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 04:35 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:29:01 +0530
> schrieb Partha Chowdhury <partha at gmx.us>:
> 
> > i just updated my system yesterday to kernel 2.6.32.2-2. I faced no
> > problem. It is running as usual.After reading your mail, i looked in
> > the pacman update log and found that only kernel and virtualbox were
> > updated.Virtualbox is running fine also. and I don't use testing.
> > 
> > About the kernel panic message,"Failed to execute /init" it means
> > either the init script in the initrd image is messed up and it is not
> > set executable or the /sbin/init executable in your system is
> > missing ! you have to uncompress the kernel23.img file and take a
> > look at init.
> 
> I already did it and I couldn't find a problem. I also rebuilt
> kernel26.img several times with different settings in mkinitcpio.conf
> but this didn't help. I, btw., didn't change any settings when updating
> the kernel.
> 
> Only updating the system to [testing] and rebuilding kernel26.img with
> the new mkinitcpio version from [testing] fixed the issue.
> 
> So something has definitely been broken.

Seeing as some haven't had the same problem, perhaps some investigation
into the details of the systems which HAVE problems (currently two on
this ML thread) would be useful?

I've been using [testing], so haven't had problems.