Excerpts from Jonas Meurer's message of Sun Sep 06 02:26:59 -0700 2009: > On 05/09/2009 Jonas Meurer wrote: > > thanks for your bugreport.
No problem. > > could you try to reproduce the bug with the cryptsetup from > > debian/testing[1]? > > > > you can do so by installing (downgrading to) the cryptsetup 2:1.0.7-1 > > package and regenerating the initramfs with > > # update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) > > > > you might want to backup the working initramfs before. > > > > i guess that the bug is not related to version 2:1.0.7-2 of the > > cryptsetup package, as nothing regarding device symlinks etc. changed > > between -1 and -2. > > please try the attached (yet untested) patch, and see whether that fixes > the bug for you. you'll need to update the initramfs after applying the > patch. Hi Jonas, I really appreciate you following up and suggesting various things to try. And I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner with any feedback. Today I'm upgrading my kernel and needing to generate a new initramfs, so I thought this would be the perfect time to test your proposed fix. However, I found that an unmodified initramfs-tools is now generating a functional initramfs for me. Apparently something (certainly the upgrade of some package) changed my setup so that my root filesystem is no longer a symlink. See the contents of /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab below and contrast with the contents I originally reported. So things are working for me now, and apparently whatever was buggy has been fixed. I do wish I could verify the patch you sent, but I don't know that it would be wise for me to try getting my system into a state such that I could test it. -Carl -- /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/yoom-root / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/yoom-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0 -- /etc/mtab /dev/mapper/yoom-root / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 -- $(ls -l /dev/mapper/) total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60 2009-09-19 12:14 control brw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 0 2009-09-19 12:14 sda2_crypt brw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 1 2009-09-19 12:14 yoom-root brw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 2 2009-09-19 12:14 yoom-swap_1
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