I am running a Debian 6 64bit Profile (3.9.3-x86_64) and seeing a kernel panic:

> brian@li173-121:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.17-3) ...
> Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
> Checking init scripts...
>
> Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
> cron: restarting...done.
> atd: restarting...done.
>
> Services restarted successfully.
> Write failed: Broken pipe
> [brian@kale ~]$ b
> Last login: Thu May 30 21:08:50 2013 from
> brian@li173-121:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.17-3) ...
> Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
> Checking init scripts...
>
> Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
> cron: restarting...done.
> atd: restarting...done.
>
> Services restarted successfully.
> Write failed: Broken pipe
> [brian@kale ~]$

I downgraded to 3.7.10-x86_64 and still see the issue. Any ideas?

EDIT: Console log below,

:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for :
Setting up libc6:amd64 (2.17-3) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...

Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
cron: restarting...done.
atd: restarting...done.

Services restarted successfully.
init: log.c:861: Assertion failed in log_serialise: log->io
init: Caught abort, core dumped
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000600

Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.7.10-x86_64-linode30 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81728c85>] panic+0xbf/0x1d1
[<ffffffff810d5119>] ? __perf_cgroup_move+0xe/0x12
[<ffffffff81059895>] find_new_reaper+0xa1/0x137
[<ffffffff8105aa8a>] forget_original_parent+0x3c/0x263
[<ffffffff8172ab4a>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x1c
[<ffffffff8105acc3>] exit_notify+0x12/0x102
[<ffffffff8105b0ab>] do_exit+0x2f8/0x3c8
[<ffffffff8105b1f9>] do_group_exit+0x7e/0xa6
[<ffffffff8105b233>] sys_exit_group+0x12/0x16
[<ffffffff81731829>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b