Kernel panic on "sudo dpkg --configure -a"

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:

[] panic+0xbf/0x1d1

[] ? _perfcgroup_move+0xe/0x12

[] findnewreaper+0xa1/0x137

[] forgetoriginalparent+0x3c/0x263

[] ? rawspinunlockirqrestore+0x19/0x1c

[] exit_notify+0x12/0x102

[] do_exit+0x2f8/0x3c8

[] dogroupexit+0x7e/0xa6

[] sysexitgroup+0x12/0x16

[] systemcallfastpath+0x16/0x1b