Guilhem Moulin <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 13:19:10 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: >> Yes there are workarounds and I've found them, and I won't stay with >> buster longer than necessary, but I am reporting a serious IMHO >> regression. > > While of course not being able to boot is an unfortunate regression, > its scope is very limited
True (see my story below). > I'm not arguing it's not a bug, just that there is not much we can do in > oldstable right now. Should one report a security vulnerability in > Buster's src:cryptsetup I'll remember to cherry-pick that change though. BTW. Do you think it may make sense to raise an issue of inadequate policy regarding "premature" sealing of Release Notes? How could I do it? I mean, I think there should be a section for Known Issuse And How To Work Around Them, that stays open for situations like this. Or a wiki page, what's important, is that it exists for every release and is linked from the RN. >> 1. I upgraded to from stretch to buster with linux-image-4.19.0-23-686-pae. >> 2. I rebooted — successfully. >> 2. I installed linux-image-5.10-686-pae from buster/updates (see above). >> 3. 5.10 didn't boot. > > Is there any reason why you don't let the dependency resolver chose > the kernel for you? (`apt install linux-image-686-pae` instead of > specific ABIs.) You would have ended up with 4.9 after dist-upgrading > to stretch, 4.19 after dist-upgrading to buster, and with 5.10 after > dist-upgrading to bullseye. Yes, dist-upgrade to bsuter has left me with 4.19 and it was fine. At this point (before upgrading to bullseye), however, I wanted to upgrade my SSD, because: a) 4 GB (root) + 16 GB (/home) is somewhat little for doing upgrades (yes, I've bind-mounted /home/apt as /var/cache/apt), b) I'd like to encrypt the new SSD with xchacha12,aes-adiantum[1] (27 MB/s vs aes-xts 17 MB/s) which is available since Linux 5.0. Hence, I chose to install 5.10 ASAP. I know, it's a complicated and exceptional story. Let's hope this report will help those few unfortunate who may follow my path. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/[email protected]/ -- Miłego dnia, Łukasz Stelmach
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