Re: [Libguestfs] building a supermin appliance with febootstrap...
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:34:54AM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
But when I try to 'exit', I notice a kernel panic. And it
just seems
to hung there, no more budging. I had to do 'ctl a + x' to get out
of the serial console.
Is this expected?
As Hilko says, this is normal behaviour when the init process dies:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.2/kernel/exit.c#L728
In libguestfs, our "init process" is the guestfsd daemon. We
configure the kernel to reboot instead of panicking by adding the
kernel command line option "panic=1".
If you use a real init or systemd then this won't be an issue because
init will issue a reboot system call instead of exiting.
Rich.
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