Bug#856589: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs fails to run on systems with tmpfs on /

2017-03-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: retitle -1 mkinitramfs fails with MODULES=dep and root on tmpfs Control: found -1 0.120 Control: found -1 0.127 kdump-tools is overriding the MODULES setting; see this command in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/kdump-tools: sed -e 's/MODULES=.*/MODULES=dep/' /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.con

Bug#856589: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs fails to run on systems with tmpfs on /

2017-03-03 Thread Benjamin Drung
tags 856589 + patch thanks The solution is quite simple: Just return from dep_add_modules_mount() when tmpfs is detected as fstype. A tested patch is attached. -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer ProfitBricks GmbH Greifswalder Str. 207 D - 10405 Berlin Email: benjamin.

Bug#856589: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs fails to run on systems with tmpfs on /

2017-03-02 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120+deb8u2 Severity: normal Hi, I am trying to configure kdump-tools on a Debian jessie live system (which runs entirely on tmpfs mount points using a custom made initrd). kdump-tools uses initramfs-tools to generate an initramfs for the crash kernel. On packag