Hi again,
Well, I probably didn't mess anything. Indeed, it seems to me that I'm
experiencing bug #439181 reported by Dann Frazier.
However, I have libklibc 1.5-4 and kernel 2.6.21-2-mckinley installed, so
slightly different packages than those reported by Dann (libklibc
1.5.4-1and kernel
2.6.22-1-mckinley).
Cheers,
Émeric
2007/8/24, Émeric Maschino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Partition usage on /boot is only 25%. Enough for hosting at least 3
> different initrd images.
>
> BTW, I just remember that I had briefly installed gcc-2.96-base with
> libstdc++5 in order to test an old software. As stated in my previous email,
> I've nonetheless reinstalled all the current gcc-4.1-base and related
> glibc and libstdc++ since then.
>
> Émeric
>
>
> 2007/8/23, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:23, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> > > I'm running up-to-date Debian Lenny on my hp workstation zx6000.
> > Today,
> > > initramfs-tools was updated and a new initrd image was created by the
> > > update-initramfs script. Unfortunately, the generated initrd image
> > > segfaults and my system was unbootable. Using the backup copy of my
> > > previous initrd image, everything went fine.
> > >
> > > I initially thought that the new initramfs-tools 0.90 was broken. But
> > > reverting to initramfs-tools 0.89 and generating again the initrd
> > image
> > > didn't solve the problem. So, something has changed on my system that
> > makes
> > > update-initramfs (being 0.89 or 0.90) produces unbootable initrd
> > image. The
> > > verbose option doesn't show any problem.
> > >
> > > Roughly one year ago, I experienced the same problem. But it was due
> > to
> > > incorrect ldd binary. This doesn't seem to be the case this time, as
> > the
> > > output of ldd /bin/dash is fine. By security, I've reinstalled all the
> > gcc,
> > > cpp, glibc and libstdc++ related packages. Still unbootable initrd
> > image
> > > though.
> > >
> > > If it can help diagnose the problem, all the packages on my system are
> > .deb
> > > packages coming from the Debian Lenny repository, except for the Intel
> >
> > > development toolchain (C compiler, debugger, math kernel library,
> > Intel
> > > performance primitive library).
> >
> > How are you doing for space in /boot? I've seen several systems hosed
> > because they ran out of space for the initrd after something changed in
> > Debian to keep additional backup copies in /boot.
> >
> > --Mike Bird
> >
> >
>
