On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 8:28:55 PM UTC+2, Reg Tiangha wrote: > On 06/27/2017 08:09 AM, Epitre wrote: > > Le mardi 27 juin 2017 12:40:00 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit : > >> Anyone have an idea why, since 4.11.7, I am always getting a "initramfs > >> not in gzip format" error? > > Hi, same problem for me with 4.11.7. I also tried to select only AMD family > > (my type of processor) and it results the same. > > > > I just tried 4.11.7 for myself on my machine, and it works fine in both > dom0 and in VMs. > > So, if you're using my development branch, make sure to run 'git pull' > to ensure everything is synced up (for example, if you haven't done it > in a while, then you may not have the XSA 216 security patches applied > to your kernel that were released last week): > > https://github.com/rtiangha/qubes-linux-kernel/tree/devel-4.11 > > Otherwise, make sure your config file has these options set (use 'make > menuconfig' and search for them to ensure they're set correctly): > > CONFIG_HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP=y > > CONFIG_RD_GZIP=y > > CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP=y > > > If that still doesn't work, then more information is needed. But for > now, try the above and see if that works.
Thanks. Was already up to date, though, and all gzip-related options were enabled (as before). Only change was a new package req (elfutils-libelf-devel). As for new info, I have frustratingly little to offer: ------------- mkdir -p /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64//var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.11.7-18 + PATH=/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/user/.local/bin:/home/user/bin + dracut --nomdadmconf --nolvmconf --kmoddir /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64/lib/modules/4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64 --modules 'kernel-modules qubes-vm-simple' --conf /dev/null --confdir /var/empty -d 'xenblk xen-blkfront cdrom ext4 jbd2 crc16 dm_snapshot' /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64//var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.11.7-18/initramfs 4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64 Kernel version 4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64 has no module directory /lib/modules/4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64 ldconfig: need absolute file name for configuration file when using -r dracut: ldconfig might need uid=0 (root) for chroot() ++ lsinitrd /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64//var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.11.7-18/initramfs usr/lib/modules/4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64/modules.dep + modules_dep= + '[' -z '' ']' ++ mktemp -d + tmpdir=/tmp/tmp.0U02gQXJIH + zcat /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64//var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.11.7-18/initramfs + cpio -imd -D /tmp/tmp.0U02gQXJIH gzip: /home/user/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-4.11.7-18.pvops.qubes.x86_64//var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.11.7-18/initramfs: not in gzip format cpio: premature end of archive + exit 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.MAZxNe (%install) ---------------- (If there is a way to get more (relevant) information, you'll have to tell me where to (start) look(ing), sorry.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/6ba1dd86-75a5-4625-ae40-c283d66a7c72%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
