Hi, On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:01:10 +0100 Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
/usr/bin/dracut: line 2772: cpio: command not foundSo it seems as if dracut had a missing dependency on cpio. Or maybe it fails to detect that 3cpio is installed instead and keeps using cpio anyway. Or maybe 3cpio should provide cpio and use the alternatives mechanism so that /usr/bin/cpio exists and may be used. This is why I've put "?" in the subject. Please use reassign if appropriate. The error does not always happen, which is strange, but it happens often enough to consider the issue as RC. I've put a bunch of failed build logs here (for linux-signed-amd64) for reference:
I've had discussions on IRC on #debian-release about the current version of src:linux, mentioning this bug, because for some time during the past week src:linux was blocked by piuparts regressions where the same text was found as in this bug. It seems that the failed piuparts runs were retried and installing of the linux binaries is now marked as OK.
I'm very much not comfortable with the situation, which appear to me like an intermittent failure. If I understood waldi correctly the version of linux in unstable is the first to use dracut. Because of this bug report "error does not always happen" and the piuparts failures that turned OK, I have put a block on migration of linux until either this bug is fixed, or it's explained why migrating of linux with this issue present is OK. Please assume I don't know how packaging and installing linux works when explaining.
Any Release Team member that is convinced migration is fine can unblock linux before I react, no need to wait for me.
Paul
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