Panic when doing shutdown or reboot

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 15:42 -0500, William Perkins wrote:
> I have two systems with which I am having problems during a shutdown or 
> reboot.  Both are x86_64 systems running Fedora-18 (Spherical Cow).  In 
> both cases the systems will panic before the shutdown or reboot process 
> is completed and system restarts or powers off.  This is a problem because 
> the system that controls the UPS must poweroff to shutdown the UPS during 
> a power failure.  If it does not, the UPS powers off after the batteries 
> run down.  This is not good for the UPS.
> 
> Anyway, this problem will occurs on either of these systems after some 
> time has been spent working on them: running X, Firefox, Liferea, LibreOffice,
> etc...  If you than shutdown apps, close windows and terminate the window 
> manager (FVWM), and than do a shutdown or reboot from the command line.
> the system will panic before the shutdown/reboot is done with the 
> following sampled lines:
> 
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
> Pid: 1, comm: shutdown Not tainted 3.7.9-205.fc18.x86_64 #1

I have a similar problem (see the recent discussion on this list titled
"System doesn't shut down properly under Fedora-18".  The disks aren't
synced; but there is no panic message in /var/log/messages.

jon