Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.142 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: vkou...@gmail.com
Hello, Thank you for your work on initramfs-tools. I have just installed Debian bookworm on a new machine. I am using a USB keyboard, which works fine when the system boots normally, but was unusable when booting with init=/bin/bash. I had to add usbhid, hid-generic to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and rebuild initramfs to fix this. This doesn't align with https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard, which seems to imply that everything would just work since in my case I was running with MODULES=most, and I shouldn't have to add anything to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. Also noting that the suggested modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules should include hid-generic anyway. It's not obvious to me why I had to update /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. I understand that listing modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules asks initramfs to load them explicitly. While looking into the problem, I verified that MODULES=most and lsinitramfs showed both modules present in the initramfs. But it seems somehow they weren't loaded into the kernel, so the device was unusable. One more thing that may be relevant: When booting, it takes some time for the keyboard to be detected: The bash prompt appears, then after 3-4 seconds the kernel logs show new USB devices being detected, including the keyboard. Then, the keyboard is usable, but only if I've taken care to list both usbhid, hid-generic in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, despite setting MODULES=most. Could this be a funny interaction with udev? Maybe initramfs-tools runs udev explicitly, at certain parts of the process, before the USB keyboard actually appears, so by the time it appears there is no-one there to actually load the necessary modules? I would have run "udevadm settle" myself to verify, but hey, no keyboard :) I looked at the code and saw initramfs-tools does attempt to load HID-related modules early on when breaking early, since udev does not yet run. Why not do it anyway, since a keyboard is critical to debugging? Looking forward to any insight you may have. Thank you, Vangelis. -- Package-specific info: -- initramfs sizes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40M Apr 1 18:44 /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-18-amd64 -- /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/maxwellvg-root ro quiet -- resume RESUME=/dev/mapper/maxwellvg-swap_1 -- /proc/filesystems ext3 ext2 ext4 fuseblk vfat -- lsmod Module Size Used by tls 135168 0 joydev 28672 0 uvcvideo 131072 0 videobuf2_vmalloc 20480 1 uvcvideo videobuf2_memops 20480 1 videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_v4l2 36864 1 uvcvideo snd_usb_audio 376832 0 videobuf2_common 73728 4 videobuf2_vmalloc,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_memops snd_usbmidi_lib 45056 1 snd_usb_audio videodev 294912 3 videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common snd_rawmidi 53248 1 snd_usbmidi_lib snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_rawmidi mc 77824 5 videodev,snd_usb_audio,videobuf2_v4l2,uvcvideo,videobuf2_common binfmt_misc 24576 1 snd_hda_codec_hdmi 81920 1 nls_ascii 16384 1 nls_cp437 20480 1 vfat 24576 1 fat 90112 1 vfat intel_rapl_msr 20480 0 intel_rapl_common 32768 1 intel_rapl_msr snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl 16384 0 x86_pkg_temp_thermal 20480 0 intel_powerclamp 20480 0 snd_sof_intel_hda_common 188416 1 snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl coretemp 20480 0 soundwire_intel 49152 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common soundwire_generic_allocation 16384 1 soundwire_intel soundwire_cadence 40960 1 soundwire_intel snd_sof_intel_hda 20480 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common kvm_intel 380928 0 snd_sof_pci 24576 2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl snd_sof_xtensa_dsp 16384 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common kvm 1142784 1 kvm_intel i915 3055616 2 irqbypass 16384 1 kvm snd_sof 274432 2 snd_sof_pci,snd_sof_intel_hda_common snd_sof_utils 20480 1 snd_sof snd_soc_hdac_hda 24576 1 snd_sof_intel_hda_common snd_hda_ext_core 40960 2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda snd_soc_acpi_intel_match 81920 2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl snd_soc_acpi 16384 2 snd_soc_acpi_intel_match,snd_sof_intel_hda_common ghash_clmulni_intel 16384 0 sha512_ssse3 49152 0 snd_soc_core 352256 4 soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda sha512_generic 16384 1 sha512_ssse3 sha256_ssse3 32768 0 snd_compress 28672 1 snd_soc_core sha1_ssse3 32768 0 soundwire_bus 102400 3 soundwire_intel,soundwire_generic_allocation,soundwire_cadence snd_hda_intel 57344 0 snd_intel_dspcfg 36864 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common snd_intel_sdw_acpi 20480 2 snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_intel_dspcfg snd_hda_codec 184320 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda drm_buddy 20480 1 i915 drm_display_helper 184320 1 i915 snd_hda_core 122880 7 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_ext_core,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_soc_hdac_hda,snd_sof_intel_hda aesni_intel 393216 0 snd_hwdep 16384 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec cec 61440 2 drm_display_helper,i915 crypto_simd 16384 1 aesni_intel cryptd 28672 2 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel snd_pcm 159744 11 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,soundwire_intel,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_sof_utils,snd_hda_core rapl 20480 0 rc_core 69632 1 cec mei_hdcp 24576 0 intel_cstate 20480 0 evdev 28672 8 snd_timer 49152 1 snd_pcm ttm 94208 1 i915 intel_uncore 217088 0 pcspkr 16384 0 wmi_bmof 16384 0 drm_kms_helper 204800 2 drm_display_helper,i915 iTCO_wdt 16384 0 mei_me 53248 1 intel_pmc_bxt 16384 1 iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support 16384 1 iTCO_wdt watchdog 45056 1 iTCO_wdt snd 126976 13 snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi soundcore 16384 1 snd mei 159744 3 mei_hdcp,mei_me i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 i915 intel_pmc_core 53248 0 acpi_tad 20480 0 acpi_pad 184320 0 button 24576 0 sg 40960 0 fuse 176128 1 drm 614400 6 drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_buddy,i915,ttm loop 32768 0 efi_pstore 16384 0 configfs 57344 1 efivarfs 24576 1 ip_tables 36864 0 x_tables 61440 1 ip_tables autofs4 53248 2 ext4 983040 2 crc16 16384 1 ext4 mbcache 16384 1 ext4 jbd2 167936 1 ext4 crc32c_generic 16384 0 hid_generic 16384 0 usbhid 65536 0 hid 159744 2 usbhid,hid_generic dm_mod 184320 7 sd_mod 65536 4 t10_pi 16384 1 sd_mod crc64_rocksoft 20480 1 t10_pi crc64 20480 1 crc64_rocksoft crc_t10dif 20480 1 t10_pi crct10dif_generic 16384 0 crct10dif_pclmul 16384 1 crct10dif_common 16384 3 crct10dif_generic,crc_t10dif,crct10dif_pclmul ahci 49152 3 libahci 49152 1 ahci crc32_pclmul 16384 0 crc32c_intel 24576 3 libata 401408 2 libahci,ahci i2c_i801 36864 0 xhci_pci 24576 0 xhci_hcd 315392 1 xhci_pci i2c_smbus 20480 1 i2c_i801 scsi_mod 286720 3 sd_mod,libata,sg usbcore 348160 6 xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usbmidi_lib,uvcvideo,xhci_pci igc 163840 0 intel_lpss_pci 28672 0 intel_lpss 16384 1 intel_lpss_pci idma64 20480 0 scsi_common 16384 3 scsi_mod,libata,sg usb_common 16384 3 xhci_hcd,usbcore,uvcvideo fan 20480 0 video 65536 1 i915 wmi 36864 2 video,wmi_bmof -- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules usbhid hid-generic -- /etc/kernel-img.conf # Kernel image management overrides # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details do_symlinks = yes do_bootloader = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = no -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=most BUSYBOX=auto KEYMAP=n COMPRESS=zstd DEVICE= NFSROOT=auto RUNSIZE=10% FSTYPE=auto -- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf update_initramfs=yes backup_initramfs=no -- mkinitramfs hooks /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks: dmsetup fsck intel_microcode keymap klibc-utils kmod lvm2 resume thermal udev zz-busybox -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii initramfs-tools-core 0.142 ii linux-base 4.9 initramfs-tools recommends no packages. Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests: ii bash-completion 1:2.11-6 -- no debconf information
