Bug#778849: Support restoring initrd on shutdown and pivoting into it

2023-09-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed 11 Jan 2023 00:17:44 +, Gervase wrote: > On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 14:16 +, Gervase wrote: > > Awhile back, I did have a look around the fix. From what I > > remembered, > > intrigeri's solution used a systemd shutdown 'script' to check for > > devmaps or whatever of LVMs, ZFS

Bug#778849: Support restoring initrd on shutdown and pivoting into it

2023-09-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri 07 Apr 2017 12:02:46 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > /lib/systemd/system/initramfs-shutdown.service: > ⋯ > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/initramfs-restore: > ⋯ > /usr/bin/unmkinitramfs /initrd.img "$WORKDIR" > ⋯ > /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/initramfs-tools: > ⋯ >

Bug#1003427: COMPRESS=zstd and COMPRESS=lz4 hard-coded to bad COMPRESSLEVELs

2022-01-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 11:04 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.140 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > This is a vote for > > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/52 &g

Bug#1003427: Acknowledgement (COMPRESS=zstd and COMPRESS=lz4 hard-coded to bad COMPRESSLEVELs)

2022-01-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
PS: my previous email speculated: does zstd -T0 break SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH? I think this test shows that zstd -T0 is safe even when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1. i.e. it does not need the equivalent of mkinitramfs's workaround for xz and gzip. bash5$ ls -hl total 1.1G -rw-r--r-- 1 twb twb 1.1G

Bug#1003427: COMPRESS=zstd and COMPRESS=lz4 hard-coded to bad COMPRESSLEVELs

2022-01-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.140 Severity: wishlist This is a vote for https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/52 I did this investigation 2 months ago, but AFAICT I forgot to push it to bugs.debian.org.

Bug#1003194: Inconsistencies between "make bindeb-pkg" and official Debian kernels

2022-01-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: debian-kernel-handbook Version: 1.0.19 Severity: normal [Initially filed against debian-kernel-handbook because while the problem is in src:linux, it's not strictly a problem with src:linux's official binary packages.] Debian Live images with custom kernels need some workarounds,

Bug#1002889: Support CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG (embed kernel boot parameters in ramdisk file)

2021-12-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.140 Severity: wishlist Recent Linux kernels support putting boot options (e.g. "init=/bin/sh" or "i915.alpha_support=1") inside the initrd file. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/bootconfig.html#boot-kernel-with-a-boot-config For me,

Bug#409272: nfsmount: incompatible with nfsv4

2021-11-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck wrote: > 3. A single mount(2) call also works! > > It is quite annoying that we need *anything* special in userland, because > a nfsvers=4.2,sec=sys mount requires only 2049/tcp (no other ports/services), > and > the actual filesystem is in-kernel, so > r

Bug#409272: nfsmount: incompatible with nfsv4

2021-11-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Short version: 1. nfsmount(8klibc) is still explicitly broken for NFSv4. 2. mount.nfs(8nfs-utils) works in the ramdisk. 3. A single mount(2) call also works! Boring detailed version follows. John Goerzen wrote: > nfsmount is incapable of mounting NFSv4 filesystems. It seems to have >

Bug#933510: nfs-kernel-server: nproc manpage description confuses me

2019-07-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.3.4-2.5 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/rpc.nfsd.8.gz The manpage says: > nproc > > specify the number of NFS server threads. > By default, just one thread is started. > However, for optimum performance several threads should be used.

Bug#845034: marked as done (initramfs-tools: please ensure initrd images are reproducible)

2018-07-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > + LC_ALL=C sort > [and similar LC_ALL=C elsewhere] I think you can dial that back from LC_ALL=C to just LC_COLLATE=C. Informal proof: bash4$ printf %s\\n README ReadMe readme | LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8 sort readme ReadMe README

Bug#855357: rsyncable tweaks for find|cpio|gzip; add cpio --reproducible

2017-02-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120+deb8u2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs Several times a month I build Debian Live images and rsync them to remote sites that use them on diskless kiosk farms. I was annoyed because if there have been few security updates, rsync will take a

Bug#756900: #756900: nfs-utils: NFS 1.3 fixes NFS systemd integration

2016-05-24 Thread Trent W. Buck
I recently upgraded my NFSv3 clients from wheezy to jessie, and they just DID NOT WORK. The NFS sysvinit init scripts had dependency cycles & race conditions when used under systemd. I ended up writing my own systemd units for the parts I needed (foo.mount, statd, & rpcbind), and disabling the

Bug#592519: $COMPRESS/$compress does not accept arguments

2015-12-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Hi, I wanted to say pass options to my compress program, e.g. # cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xz compress="pxz -Ccrc32 -1" # dev builds should build fast compress="pxz -Ccrc32 -9ev" # prod builds should boot fast Unfortunately this code requires the compress (or

Bug#796674: bootchart vs. analyze plot

2015-12-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
[Here are some background details on this feature.] There is a dumber "good enough" command called "systemd-analyze plot". I asked myself: is it worth rolling a custom kernel just for systemd-bootchart? I looked for some examples to compare; I found these

Bug#744836: Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! -- Ensure all necessary drivers are built into the linux image!

2014-04-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.115 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs When building a live-boot image with a custom kernel that lacks CONFIG_MODULE, I ran into this warning output: Setting up linux-image-3.13.7inmate (3.13.7inmate-1) ... update-initramfs: Generating

Bug#698203: Not a directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1177. (extlinux)

2013-01-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ben Hutchings wrote: I'll change it to treat ENOTDIR as non-fatal (same as ENOENT). Thanks, that sounds appropriate to me. 4875 open(/boot/extlinux/options.cfg, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) FTR, this was happening because /boot/extlinux existed -- it was the installer

Bug#698203: Not a directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1177. (extlinux)

2013-01-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: linux-base Version: 3.5 Severity: minor I did the following: - basic squeeze install, choose no bootloader, - manually do an extlinux install in /boot (extlinux package is NOT installed) - set link_in_boot=yes in kernel-img.conf Those are about the only things I did. Then I

Bug#613658: Please enable SQUASHFS_XZ et al for =2.6.38-rc1.

2011-02-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: experimental User: debian-l...@live.debian.org Usertags: kernel xz (a.k.a. LZMA2) is a shiny new compression algorithm that yields smaller files than gzip, and is faster than bzip2. For Debian Live images, especially, it would be nice to have better

Bug#595364: Assumes /etc/fstab exists (it doesn't in cdebootstrap).

2010-09-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: linux-base Version: 2.6.34-1~experimental.2 Severity: minor I had cdebootstrap generate a squeeze chroot, and installed a kernel into it. When I then ran dpkg-reconfigure -a -plow in the chroot, this package borked the dpkg-reconfigure run because /etc/fstab doesn't exist. + chroot

Bug#579336: update-initramfs: recognize (and ignore?) moduleless/ramdiskless kernels.

2010-04-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.94.4 Severity: wishlist Following the kernel handbook, I built a mainline kernel using make deb-pkg. This kernel is configured without modules or initrd support. On installing it with dpkg -i, I got this: $ sudo dpkg -i

Bug#573912: linux-2.6: please enable ramzswap/compcache

2010-03-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Vagrant Cascadian wrote: Please consider setting CONFIG_RAMZSWAP (a.k.a. compcache), which enables a ram based compressed swap device. i think it can be enabled as a module, but i'm not sure. This feature is very useful to thin clients, embedded devices, or other environments with limited

Bug#536183: Can't change CPU scaling governor after .29 to .30 upgrade.

2010-02-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:37AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: # printf ondemand /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor It should give an error here. # dmesg | tail -1 [38198.312686] ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency

Bug#536183: Can't change CPU scaling governor after .29 to .30 upgrade.

2010-02-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: After upgrading from .29 to .30, I can no longer change my CPU frequency scaling governor: [...] The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and tell us whether the problem

Bug#536183: Can't change CPU scaling governor after .29 to .30 upgrade.

2010-02-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ben Hutchings wrote: Also, you could try using acpi-cpufreq instead of p4-clockmod. I don't know whether it will work on this machine but it might do. # modprobe acpi-cpufreq FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq

Bug#463860: [atl2] Fails to create a wifi interface

2009-04-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:57:29AM +0100, David wrote: retitle 463860 [atl2] Fails to create a wifi interface I think atl2 is wrong. Aren't you talking about the ath5k driver? atl2 drives the Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#522705: [atl2] network dies after a half-hour on Eee PC 701

2009-04-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-686 Version: 2.6.29-1 Severity: normal I'm using an Eee PC 701, which has a wired interface: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter (rev a0) This has worked fine with previous kernel versions. After upgrading to

Bug#425851: Manifests with VMWare Server 1.0.3, too

2007-11-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
I encountered this bug when running VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS (4 or 5, I think). The guest OS was a fresh Debian Etch AMD64 system (using 2.6.18) which I dist-upgraded to Lenny (using 2.6.22). The 2.6.22 kernel could not detect the SCSI drive, with the same diagnostics as reported by OP.