On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:49:55 +0000 Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > Control: tag -1 patch > --- > Bug #783620 involves several machines with root on xfs being upgraded > from wheezy to jessie and then immediately rebooted. In some cases > the initramfs was apparently written to the journal but not committed > during the reboot. As GRUB doesn't replay the journal, it loaded an > empty initramfs and the kernel failed to boot. > > There is clearly a bug elsewhere (init system or kernel) that > prevented the filesystem being cleanly shut down. However, there > seems to be a general risk here, so add a 'sync' to mitigate it. [...]
That bug appears to be: https://bugs.debian.org/811497 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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