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Hosted VPS various boot issues, can't boot, in a Kernel Panic state?

Mark Anderson

4/26/23, 9:48 AM

Thanks for reading,

VPS running Ubuntu 18.04

My VPS hosted with OVH is not booting, however the problem seems random. It seems to boot a couple of days ago after me trying it a few times, but then it crashes again. It has been fine for 8 months, no issues, then just stopped.

I know pretty much nothing about how to deal with an Ubuntu VPS unfortunately, just have experience with Windows.

I have been trying to get OVH to assist on this issue for the past 2 weeks, that is how long the VPS has been down. They are simply unhelpful, unresponsive.

Does the the attached image mean anything helpful ? / is there anything I can do in terms of running some sort of diags and resetting / reinstalling something without losing all the data and my proprietary apps and sites etc etc ? I guess I can't even get to a system prompt if the system is stopping at the attached screen ?

Thanks

UPDATE

Appreciate the replies and apologies for the delay in responding, had some trouble getting what I hope is the additional info being sought.

For what it's worth, my gut is telling me it is a hard disk read error type issue but I do not know how to confirm this via Rescue Mode on a VPS. Looking that up now but so far I can't find anything that makes sense to me.

[ 7.406756] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 
[ 7.406756] run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory 
[ 7.408399] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: run-init Not tainted 4.15.0-163-generic #171-Ubuntu 
[ 7.409686] Hardware name: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova, BIOS 2:1.10.2-58953eb7 04/01/2014 
[ 7.411085] Call Trace: 
[ 7.411585] dump_stack+0x6d/0x8b 
[ 7.412189] panic+0xe4/0x247 
[ 7.412730] do_exit+0x7fb/0xb90 
[ 7.413304] SyS_exit+0x17/0x20 
[ 7.413907] do_syscall_64+0x73/0x130 
[ 7.414531] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x41/0xa6 
[ 7.415378] RIP: 0033:0x20d459 
[ 7.415947] RSP: 002b:00007ffcb9277b08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003c 
[ 7.417175] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000020d459 
[ 7.418266] RDX: 00007f675b332120 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001 
[ 7.419337] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 000000000020d4b0 R09: 00007f675b32a000 
[ 7.420463] R10: 000000000020d459 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffcb9277b68 
[ 7.421488] R13: 00000000004001ba R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 
[ 7.422935] Kernel Offset: 0x2d200000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff) 
[ 7.424592] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 
[ 7.424592]

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AlexD

4/26/23, 10:01 AM

show entire log

djdomi

4/26/23, 10:07 AM

i think the question would better fit on superuser, however just restore from backup or reinstall the vm, moreover 1804 is afaik soon or already EOL. take care about using a more current version

Gerald Schneider

4/26/23, 10:42 AM

18.04 is perfectly fine, it's supported until 2023. I'd switch too a better hoster if the support is that bad.

Gerald Schneider

4/26/23, 10:44 AM

Since you have access to the console, try booting a different kernel. Ubuntu usually keeps the last two or three. You can select them via the grub menu.

djdomi

4/26/23, 1:02 PM

it could be that a required module is not loaded or supported. as Told i suggest to use a newer version as it might support the case out of the box. But show us more log in case of same issue. And i also agree with Gerald, if the support is such bad look for another hoster, depending on where you citizenship is, myself is happy with netcup

AlexD

4/26/23, 2:04 PM

The panic seems to indicate a missing initrd

Mark Anderson

5/4/23, 11:31 PM

Appreciate the replies and apologies for the delay in responding, had some trouble getting what I hope is the additional info being sought. Add above.

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