Hello,

Since we are "guilty" for these MRG builds let me comment on this too..

> *However*, all is not perfect. For the majority of the time, everything is rosy -
> we've got three big dual-Xeon machines all merrily running 24hours/day. Then, one
> day, a reboot of the machine brought the system back up with a kernel panic (not
> syncing: Attempted to kill init!).

We see similar problems with some of the systems running MRG kernel-rt here at 
CERN: in all cases so far these kernel Ooopses do happen on system boot and 
rebooting system again (sometimes twice) temporarily 'fixes' the situation.

I would be interested in seeing more debug output from panics you see, to
compare with what we experience...

> Would be interested in anyone shedding light of exactly what "dracut" is,

Here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut - you'll find all information about

Best Regards

Jarek

PS: Please use rather linuxsoft.cern.ch in your MRG
     repo setup not glitesoft.cern.ch - that one may
     point to different repositories in the future ...

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