I've got a bit of an issue with a production server that needs to be back up immediately. Since I have no backups of the data I'm struggling to repair this machine. This server, running RH, version unknown but recent. I don't think it's 9, 8.2 maybe. I don't know anything about how RH does business, I'm more of a debian guy. This machine has been up for quite a while, had uptime pushing 300 days. It became unresponsive on 6/5 though weekend activity is minimal so I let it go until 6/6. The machine had Kernel Panic'd. Upon reboot I get something that looks a lot like the following: <hand typed terminal output> Code: Bad EIP value. <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 82f4db2b print eip: 82f4db2b *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 ext3 jbd raid1 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<82f4db2b>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010283 EIP is at Using_Version [] 0x82f4db2a (2.4.20-8) eax: 0000003b ebx: e7ff8000 ecx: 00000030 edx: 00000068 esi: 00000000 edi: 000000000 ebp: bfffc22c esp: e7ff9fc0 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process init (pid: 1, stackpage-e7ff9000) Stack: <trimmed string of hex values> Call Trace: [<c0109537>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xe7ff9fc0)) Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init! </hand> What I'm getting out of this, and from a bit of research is that there's a problem with init itself. One suggestion I've was to replace init from a RH boot disk. Any experience with something like this by chance? Thanks! -- ./timo