There was a concern that udev is still running at this point, so I added a `ps` right after `udevadm control --timeout=61 --exit` and the result is this: Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... PID USER VSZ STAT COMMAND 1 0 4460 S /bin/sh /init ro 2 0 0 SW [kthreadd] 3 0 0 SW [ksoftirqd/0] 4 0 0 SW [kworker/0:0] 5 0 0 SW [kworker/u:0] 6 0 0 SW [migration/0] 7 0 0 SW [migration/1] 8 0 0 SW [kworker/1:0] 9 0 0 SW [ksoftirqd/1] 10 0 0 SW [kworker/0:1] 11 0 0 SW< [cpuset] 12 0 0 SW< [khelper] 13 0 0 SW< [netns] 14 0 0 SW [sync_supers] 15 0 0 SW [kworker/u:1] 16 0 0 SW [bdi-default] 17 0 0 SW< [kintegrityd] 18 0 0 SW< [kblockd] 19 0 0 SW< [ata_sff] 20 0 0 SW [khubd] 21 0 0 SW< [md] 22 0 0 SW [kworker/1:1] 24 0 0 SW [khungtaskd] 25 0 0 SW [kswapd0] 26 0 0 SWN [ksmd] 27 0 0 SWN [khugepaged] 28 0 0 DW [fsnotify_mark] 29 0 0 SW [ecryptfs-kthrea] 30 0 0 SW< [crypto] 38 0 0 SW< [kthrotld] 39 0 0 SW [scsi_eh_0] 40 0 0 SW [scsi_eh_1] 41 0 0 SW [kworker/u:2] 42 0 0 SW [kworker/u:3] 298 0 0 SW [jbd2/vda-8] 299 0 0 SW< [ext4-dio-unwrit] 303 0 4456 S /bin/sh -e /scripts/init-bottom/udev 305 0 4460 R ps done. run-init: nuking initramfs contents: Directory not empty [ 6.397128] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! [ 6.397849] Pid: 1, comm: run-init Not tainted 3.0.0-12-server #20-Ubuntu [ 6.398715] Call Trace: [ 6.399018] [<ffffffff815e8184>] panic+0x91/0x194 [ 6.399609] [<ffffffff810626c5>] forget_original_parent+0x245/0x250 [ 6.400424] [<ffffffff810626e7>] exit_notify+0x17/0x150 [ 6.401102] [<ffffffff81062feb>] do_exit+0x1fb/0x440 [ 6.401660] [<ffffffff81063387>] sys_exit+0x17/0x20 [ 6.402255] [<ffffffff81606c02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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