Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.109 Severity: serious Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Hi, this is a bug for this (merged) MR on salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/flash-kernel/-/merge_requests/80 From the MR/commit description: > Since Debian Linux commit 85b86360b6e4c1c63a698aa98edbdec963d72ebe, > /usr/lib/linux-image-$kvers is a symlink to /lib/modules/$kvers/dtb and > without -H, find will not traverse into it. I'm not the best person to file this bug because the platforms I have here (imx8mq, rk3588, a311d, ls1028a, imx8m+) are all not supported by flash-kernel, so I can only use them with flash-kernel with a patched machine file. This is why you will see a strange version in my logs. I am maintaining a Debian "derivative" (we only patch five packages) for the MNT Reform open hardware laptops and one of the packages we patch is flash-kernel. We also patch it with the patch from above MR and this is what convinces me that that MR fixes this problem. Without that patch, we see this: Preparing to unpack …/flash-kernel_3.109+reform20250506T203207Z~bpo13+1_arm64.deb… Unpacking flash-kernel (3.109+reform20250506T203207Z~bpo13+1) over (3.109)… Setting up initramfs-tools (0.150)… update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up flash-kernel (3.109+reform20250506T203207Z~bpo13+1)… Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb flash-kernel: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1)… Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.150)… update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Couldn't find DTB rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb in /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs Installing into /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb cp: cannot stat '': No such file or directory run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): old initramfs-tools package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed with exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) We can investigate why that is by looking at the sh -x output: + [ MNT Pocket Reform with RCORE RK3588 Module = MNT Pocket Reform with RCORE RK3588 Module ] + state=gotmachine + [ gotmachine = fields ] + [ gotmachine = gotmachine ] + [ gotmachine != gotmachine ] + read field value + [ gotmachine = machine ] + [ gotmachine = fields ] + [ gotmachine = gotmachine ] + state=fields + read field value + [ fields = machine ] + [ fields = fields ] + echo rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + return 0 + local field=rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + dtb_name=rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + [ -n rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb ] + echo Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + dirname rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + dtb_dir=rockchip + basename rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + dtb_name=rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + [ -n ] + linux-version list + linux-version sort + tail -1 + latest_version=6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 + [ -n ] + [ -z ] + [ -n ] + [ no = yes ] + kvers=6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 + handle_dtb + [ xrk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb = x ] + dtbfile=/boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + local dtb + [ x = xpostrm.d ] + find_dtb_file + local dtb + find /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs -name rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + head -n 1 + dtb= + [ -z ] + find /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 -name rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + head -n 1 + dtb= + [ ! -f ] + error Couldn't find DTB rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb in /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs + echo Couldn't find DTB rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb in /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs Couldn't find DTB rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb in /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 or /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs + exit 1 + local dtb= + echo Installing into /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Installing into /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb + mkdir -p /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip + cp /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb.new cp: cannot stat '': No such file or directory The problem is, that "find /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64" sees a symlink and will not descend into it. This is why the problem is fixed by adding the -H flag to find. With that flag in place we get: Unpacking flash-kernel (3.109+reform20260112T074539Z+1) over (3.109+reform20250826T191649Z+1)… Setting up initramfs-tools (0.150)… update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up flash-kernel (3.109+reform20260112T074539Z+1)… Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb flash-kernel: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1)… Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.150)… update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Installing /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb into /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Installing new rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb. flash-kernel: installing version 6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 Generating boot script u-boot image... done. Installing new boot.scr. Processing triggers for flash-kernel (3.109+reform20260112T074539Z+1)… Using DTB: rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Installing /usr/lib/linux-image-6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb into /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Taking backup of rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb. Installing new rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb. flash-kernel: installing version 6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 Generating boot script u-boot image... done. Taking backup of boot.scr. Installing new boot.scr. And as expected the dtb gets copied to where it should be: m@m:~$ find /boot/dtbs/ /boot/dtbs/ /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64 /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb.bak /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb /boot/dtbs/6.18.3-mnt-reform-arm64/rk3588-mnt-pocket-reform.dtb Thanks! cheers, josch
