Bug#895361: debirf: a system fails to boot: corrupted rootfs.cxz

2018-04-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Thanks for your reply, TL; DR: not a debirf issue. Maybe a kernel issue. Maybe a hardware problem. Two patches attached. First one: just helped me debug the problem. The second one may be useful for debirf. On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 08:30:23PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu 2018-04-12 1

Bug#895361: debirf: a system fails to boot: corrupted rootfs.cxz

2018-04-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2018-04-12 13:28:34 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Update: a new version of the patch. It now works and supports all > compressors supported by busybox (I tried bzip2, gzip, lzma, lzop and > xz). lzma and xz fail. Others work. thanks for this work, Tzafrir! I'd be willing to incorporate thi

Bug#895361: debirf: a system fails to boot: corrupted rootfs.cxz

2018-04-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Update: a new version of the patch. It now works and supports all compressors supported by busybox (I tried bzip2, gzip, lzma, lzop and xz). lzma and xz fail. Others work. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.o

Bug#895361: debirf: a system fails to boot: corrupted rootfs.cxz

2018-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Package: debirf Version: 0.37 Severity: minor I'vve been looking for this issue for several days: our debirf-based system generally works well (and debirf is a great tool!). However I get one specific system kept failing to boot. When I break in the first-stage loader, I see that rootfs.cxz has t