Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.94.4
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze
Very recent changes to the initramfs-tools have caused my system to fail to
load ramdisk at boot. I have to boot the system with the backup initrd
image. I have checked with rootdelay=10--no change. The problem does not
appear to be related to grub. When I boot the machine and watch the mass of
kernel data fly by I get the impression that udev is not working or has
somehow changed from mid-February till now (all of these problems first
appeared in late Feb/early March of 2010). I am only using the squeeze dataset
without items from experimental or other sources.
My system is different from most in that my / partition is inside a luks crypto
container which is then on a RAID 6 volume. The /boot is on an unencrypted
RAID 1 volume. Each physical disk has a separate bios_grub partition (128k)
and the partition tables are GPT.
As I said before this above setup WORKS and I have a 6TB system where the
boot disk can fail (I tested this) and the system comes back alive. For
whatever reason, recent changes to initramfs-tools 1) make it not see the
hard drives or any USB devices for that mater, 2) fails to start the RAID
devices, and thus 3) the kernel panics at about 2secs into the boot sequence.
Thank you for all your work. Squeeze really is shaping into a mighty force.
C. Cropper
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/md1_crypt ro rootdelay=2
-- /proc/filesystems
xfs
fuseblk
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
xt_multiport2267 1
nf_nat_ftp 2047 0
nf_conntrack_ftp5537 1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_nat_irc 1366 0
nf_conntrack_irc3347 1 nf_nat_irc
ipt_REJECT 1953 4
ipt_ULOG7129 17
xt_limit1782 18
xt_tcpudp 2319 54
xt_state1303 65
ipt_MASQUERADE 1554 1
iptable_nat 4299 1
nf_nat 13372 4 nf_nat_ftp,nf_nat_irc,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 9833 68 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_conntrack 46471 9
nf_nat_ftp,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_nat_irc,nf_conntrack_irc,xt_state,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4 1139 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
iptable_filter 2258 1
ip_tables 13899 2 iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables 12813 9
xt_multiport,ipt_REJECT,ipt_ULOG,xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_tables
ppdev 5030 0
lp 7462 0
parport27938 2 ppdev,lp
powernow_k810930 0
cpufreq_userspace 1992 0
cpufreq_conservative 5162 0
cpufreq_powersave902 0
cpufreq_stats 2659 0
binfmt_misc 6431 1
fuse 50110 1
loop 11783 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 235378 1
snd_hda_intel 19619 2
snd_hda_codec 54212 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
usblp 9571 0
snd_hwdep 5364 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss32591 0
snd_mixer_oss 12606 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm60615 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi4400 0
snd_rawmidi15483 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 4628 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq42801 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 15502 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 4477 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
amd64_edac_mod 13630 0
snd46350 15
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
edac_core 29245 4 amd64_edac_mod
soundcore 4598 1 snd
psmouse49505 0
shpchp 26264 0
i2c_nforce2 5280 0
edac_mce_amd6353 1 amd64_edac_mod
i2c_core 15584 1 i2c_nforce2
serio_raw 3752 0
pci_hotplug21171 1 shpchp
pcspkr 1699 0
snd_page_alloc 6217 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
container 2389 0
evdev 7336 11
processor 30215 2 powernow_k8
xfs 435388 3
exportfs3170 1 xfs
sha256_generic 8692 16
cryptd 5366 0
aes_x86_64 7340 16
aes_generic25714 1 aes_x86_64
cbc 2539 8
dm_crypt 10507 8
dm_mod 53674 17 dm_crypt
raid45644388 1
async_raid6_recov 5058 1 raid456
async_pq3479 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
raid6_pq 77179 2 async_raid6_recov,async_pq
async_xor 2478 3 raid456,async_raid6_recov,async_pq
xor 4380 1 async_xor
async_memcpy
