Re: Finding reason for "Attempted to kill init"

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Stephen Torri wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 07:25, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 
>>On 27 May 2003 02:56, Stephen Torri wrote:
>>
>>>I can see from kernel/exit.c where the message "Attempted to kill
>>>init" comes from in the kernel. That is good. What would be helpful
>>>is to deteremine where in the code the function do_exit() is called.
>>>Is there a way to do that? I am trying to hunt down a boot failure
>>>for a kernel on a Gentoo LiveCD. I am in communication with the
>>>developers of the Gentoo Alpha list about this problem?
>>
>>Your /sbin/init exits
> 
> So because this binary file exists the kernel will not boot?

exist != exit

If init terminates, your system is borked anyway.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel