Re: Kernel panic while building VM

[Myles English]

on [2017-06-20] at 17:31 Marius Bakke writes:

> Myles English <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Trying to build a VM I get a kernel panic.  Any idea why?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Myles
>>
>> guix system vm-image --image-size=1G --fallback pim-server.scm
>>
>> `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/gnutls-serv'
>>  -> 
>> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/gnutls-serv'
>> `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/psktool'
>>  -> 
>> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/psktool'
>> `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/ocsptool'
>>  -> 
>> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/ocsptool'
>> ERROR: In procedure copy-file:
>> ERROR: In procedure copy-file: Success
>>
>> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
>> [  236.784010] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! 
>> exitcode=0x00000000
>
> I've seen a similar failure when the disk image was too small to fit the
> system declaration. Do you get the same error with a larger image size?

That was it, thanks!

Myles