kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:

> From: Dennis J. <dennisml at conversis.de>
> Subject: Re: kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:45 AM
> On 10/16/2008 02:34 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > [<c046cc30>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x1ac/0x1c5
> > [<c04059cb>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
> > [<c046cc30>] ?
> >
> > [<e094e6c7>] ? ext4_get_sb+0x18/0x1a [ext4]
> > [<e09504df>] ? ext4_fill_super+0x0/0x1f1a [ext4]
> >
> > The last two here appear to tell me something.  I was
> bugzilling the denied avcs and the computer froze.  I tried
> CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and CTRL+ALT+DELETE and I could not do
> anything.  I turned off the computer manually and now all I
> see is this :(
> >
> > Can't save the message trying to boot to previous
> kernel to get output.  Will get back if I can.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
> 
> This changelog entry from the latest kernel in koji might
> be related:
> 
> * Wed Oct 15 2008 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
> 2.6.27-16
> - Disable FTRACE; DYNAMIC_FTRACE will be marked broken in
> 2.6.27.1
>    (without dynamic ftrace the overhead is noticeable.)
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis

Thanks Dennis for letting me know about this.  I still want to figure out if I can boot back.  I keep seeing the kernel panic on the 2.6.27 kernels.  How can I get an fsck at boot to try and fix this?

Regards,

Antonio