I had the panic below on a laptop running Fedora-4, and am wondering what is the best way to repair the system; and in particular if there is anything short of re-installation that would be likely to solve the problem. I should say that there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the machine itself, as grub brings up Windows fine. Here is the panic; any advice on a solution gratefully received. All goes well until: ----------------------------------------- kjournal starting, Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Switching to new root ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!!: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! [<c0127ba8>] panic+0x45/0x1b4 [<c012a505>] profile_task_exit+0x35/0x40 [<c012dc3f>] do_exit+0x76b/0x942 [<c012df6d>] do_group_exit+0x12b/0x349 [<c0189f56>] sys_munmap+0x50/0x68 [<c0104465>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ----------------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
