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--- Begin Message ---
Package: module-init-tools
Version: 3.7-pre5-1 0
Severity: important
Recently kernels I built from upstream kernel source failed to boot
after unpacking them because no modules got included in the initramfs
initrd (and thus no root file system).
This problem was solved after downgrading to m-i-t 3.4.1.
The problem seems to be that depmod, which is run as part of the build,
generates a modules.dep file with incomplete paths. These incomplete paths
in turn cause initramfs-tools to create a broken initrd.
An example line from modules.dep, with old m-i-t:
/lib/modules/2.6.27.19/kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha512_s390.ko:
/lib/modules/2.6.27.19/kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.ko
With new m-i-t:
kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha512_s390.ko: kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.ko
The depmod invocation used in the upstream kernel Makefile is:
cmd_depmod = \
if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then
\
$(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map
\
$(if $(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)), -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r)
\
$(KERNELRELEASE);
\
fi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers sid
APT policy: (500, 'sid')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
There is no issue in initramfs-tools and on reflection the requirement to
run depmod is not unreasonable. Therefore closing.
Sorry for the noise which was partially caused by confusion over whether
the change was general in depmod or only when called with the -b option.
--- End Message ---
