Control: tag -1 wontfix On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 11:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 > Severity: normal > > After upgrading this machine to Debian 8.3 (from Debian 8.2), the kernel > would not boot. I wrote these messages down: > > [time stamp] Unpacking initramfs ... > (bunch of stuff that scrolls by too quickly, followed by a stack trace) > [ 2.726147] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no > killable processes... > > The machine has 64 MB of memory. linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae (older > packages) did work previously. I must be RIGHT on the edge of what the > kernel needs. > > Fortunately the wheezy kernel was still installed, and I was able to boot > that one. I've changed GRUB_DEFAULT to use that as a workaround. > > I'm not sure whether this problem is actually caused by the kernel, or > some change in the initramfs. But since using the older kernel DOES work, > this seems like the most likely place to report the problem.
We really don't support machines with this little memory any more. If your initramfs-tools configuration currently has MODULES=most, you may be able to avoid the OOM by changing that to MODULES=dep and rebuilding it (update-initramfs -u). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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