<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> I am trying to follow this procedure on a Debian 9 machine that had a kernel panic error and how sort of works, but doesn't shut down </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">properly. I get this output for the command:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4241184 Aug 11 2019 vmlinuz-4.9.0-9-amd64</div><div>walrus@debian:/boot$ ls -lrth /boot/</div><div>total 129M</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M May 7 2018 vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M May 7 2018 System.map-4.9.0-6-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K May 7 2018 config-4.9.0-6-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Apr 18 2019 initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Aug 11 2019 vmlinuz-4.9.0-9-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Aug 11 2019 System.map-4.9.0-9-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Aug 11 2019 config-4.9.0-9-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Aug 26 2020 initrd.img-4.9.0-9-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Dec 17 2020 vmlinuz-4.9.0-14-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Dec 17 2020 System.map-4.9.0-14-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Dec 17 2020 config-4.9.0-14-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Feb 11 2021 initrd.img-4.9.0-14-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Mar 7 2021 vmlinuz-4.9.0-15-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Mar 7 2021 System.map-4.9.0-15-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Mar 7 2021 config-4.9.0-15-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Mar 21 2021 initrd.img-4.9.0-15-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Jun 20 2021 vmlinuz-4.9.0-16-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Jun 20 2021 System.map-4.9.0-16-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183K Jun 20 2021 config-4.9.0-16-amd64</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Jun 26 2021 initrd.img-4.9.0-16-amd64</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Jun 26 2021 grub</div><div>walrus@debian:/boot$ uname -r</div><div>4.9.0-16-amd64</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">trying to make sense of this part in the procedure:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-family: "Red Hat Text", Overpass, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Step 3.2</span>: Next, run the <code style="font-family: "Overpass Mono", Consolas, Monaco, "Andale Mono", monospace; font-size: 15.75px; color: rgb(232, 62, 140);">dracut</code> command:</p><pre style="font-family: "Overpass Mono", Consolas, Monaco, "Andale Mono", monospace; font-size: 15.75px; color: rgb(23, 26, 28);"><code class="ydp6392dcbelanguage-shell ydp6392dcbehljs" style="font-family: "Overpass Mono", Consolas, Monaco, "Andale Mono", monospace; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background: rgb(248, 248, 248); display: block; margin: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="ydp6392dcbehljs-meta" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: 700;">#</span><span class="ydp6392dcbebash">dracut -f <initrd-image> <kernal-version></span></code></pre></div><br></div>Any ideas?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">thanks,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Greg</div></div></body></html>