Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
so the solution to this bug is: 1. to install usrmerge and run it 2. patch install kernel arch/$arch/boot/install.sh to support /usr/sbin as well Can we close this bug now? Thanks.
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On 21/08/2021 18:33, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 06:30:21PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: And for the sake of completeness, I already did merge. Just no remembered it! So even for merged / and /usr system there is a bug unless usrmerge is installed. I'm confused. You installed usrmerge but then deleted the /sbin symlink? Ok. It was indeed unclear. Sorry. When I first installed the NAS I had separated disks partitions for / and /usr and in that case hard link do not work at all. I did not remembered I did already probably boot on a rescue usb key and did the merge using the data raid partition has a temporary space holder to copy both / and /usr to a directory there, remove the two partitions, recreate a single partition using the free space and copy back the content. This is was I called merged / and /usr. I probably never installed usrmerge once done because I had no need to do so. -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 06:30:21PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > And for the sake of completeness, I already did merge. Just no remembered > it! So even for merged / and /usr system there is a bug unless usrmerge is > installed. I'm confused. You installed usrmerge but then deleted the /sbin symlink?
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
I do not mind deciding everything should be in /usr but as pointed out there are other project that should adapt. And for the sake of completeness, I already did merge. Just no remembered it! So even for merged / and /usr system there is a bug unless usrmerge is installed. -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On 21/08/2021 18:09, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: if you expect to have unconditionally it make a depends and people with not enough place to merge / and /usr will explain you maybe not politely you broke their system... That would make it impossible to purge usrmerge after install, which would be unfortunate. For my personnal case, On a NAS with only remote access, repartioning on the fly is a bit tricky and that has been live for about 8 years... What is your plan? Keep running sid on your NAS until 2 years from now and then never upgrade again when unmerged /usr is completely unsupported in the stable release? Avoid to make the merge as long as possible until everyting is fixed everywhere. Recent changes did broke various things if I look at critical bug. It also broke at least my laptop with no way to enter X11 (and here / and /usr are already merged). The location is incorrect anyway unless upstream kernel explicitly makes a change. I do not mind deciding everything should be in /usr but as pointed out there are other project that should adapt. -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > if you expect to have unconditionally it make a depends and people with not > enough place to merge / and /usr will explain you maybe not politely you > broke their system... That would make it impossible to purge usrmerge after install, which would be unfortunate. > For my personnal case, On a NAS with only remote access, repartioning on the > fly is a bit tricky and that has been live for about 8 years... What is your plan? Keep running sid on your NAS until 2 years from now and then never upgrade again when unmerged /usr is completely unsupported in the stable release?
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On 21/08/2021 17:56, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:51:06PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: But as nobody makes the link, there is a problem by default. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=978636#178 As soon as you install the usrmerge package you should be fine. if you expect to have unconditionally it make a depends and people with not enough place to merge / and /usr will explain you maybe not politely you broke their system... For my personnal case, On a NAS with only remote access, repartioning on the fly is a bit tricky and that has been live for about 8 years... -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:51:06PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > But as nobody makes the link, there is a problem by default. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=978636#178 As soon as you install the usrmerge package you should be fine.
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On 21/08/2021 17:48, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:45:48PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: But upstream kernel look explicitely in /sbin so there will be a problem... /usr/src/linux-zotac-h67itx# sh -x /usr/src/linux-5.10.7/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot" + verify arch/x86/boot/bzImage + '[' '!' -f arch/x86/boot/bzImage ']' + verify System.map + '[' '!' -f System.map ']' + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' + exec /sbin/installkernel 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map /boot Once your /sbin is a symlink to usr/sbin, that problem will go away. But as nobody makes the link, there is a problem by default. -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On 21/08/2021 17:45, Eric Valette wrote: On 21/08/2021 17:43, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /sbin/installkernel <== manually copied -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 21 août 17:24 /sbin/installkernel root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /usr/sbin/installkernel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 20 août 13:31 /usr/sbin/installkernel I suspect the link is a hard link that does not work on different filesystem use -s No, there is no link; unmerged /usr won't be supported for bookworm. But upstream kernel look explicitely in /sbin so there will be a problem... /usr/src/linux-zotac-h67itx# sh -x /usr/src/linux-5.10.7/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot" + verify arch/x86/boot/bzImage + '[' '!' -f arch/x86/boot/bzImage ']' + verify System.map + '[' '!' -f System.map ']' + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' + exec /sbin/installkernel 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map /boot removing the link in /sbin gives: sh -x /usr/src/linux-5.10.7/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot" + verify arch/x86/boot/bzImage + '[' '!' -f arch/x86/boot/bzImage ']' + verify System.map + '[' '!' -f System.map ']' + '[' -x /root/bin/ ']' + '[' -x /sbin/ ']' + '[' -f /boot/vmlinuz ']' + mv /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.old + '[' -f /boot/System.map ']' + mv /boot/System.map /boot/System.old + cat arch/x86/boot/bzImage + cp System.map /boot/System.map + '[' -x /sbin/lilo ']' + '[' -x /etc/lilo/install ']' + sync + echo 'Cannot find LILO.' Cannot find LILO. -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /sbin/installkernel <== manually copied > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 21 août 17:24 /sbin/installkernel > root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /usr/sbin/installkernel > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 20 août 13:31 /usr/sbin/installkernel > > I suspect the link is a hard link that does not work on different filesystem > use -s No, there is no link; unmerged /usr won't be supported for bookworm.
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:45:48PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > But upstream kernel look explicitely in /sbin so there will be a problem... > > /usr/src/linux-zotac-h67itx# sh -x > /usr/src/linux-5.10.7/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage > System.map "/boot" > + verify arch/x86/boot/bzImage > + '[' '!' -f arch/x86/boot/bzImage ']' > + verify System.map > + '[' '!' -f System.map ']' > + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' > + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' > + exec /sbin/installkernel 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map /boot Once your /sbin is a symlink to usr/sbin, that problem will go away.
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
On 21/08/2021 17:43, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /sbin/installkernel <== manually copied -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 21 août 17:24 /sbin/installkernel root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /usr/sbin/installkernel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 20 août 13:31 /usr/sbin/installkernel I suspect the link is a hard link that does not work on different filesystem use -s No, there is no link; unmerged /usr won't be supported for bookworm. But upstream kernel look explicitely in /sbin so there will be a problem... /usr/src/linux-zotac-h67itx# sh -x /usr/src/linux-5.10.7/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot" + verify arch/x86/boot/bzImage + '[' '!' -f arch/x86/boot/bzImage ']' + verify System.map + '[' '!' -f System.map ']' + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' + exec /sbin/installkernel 5.10.60 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map /boot -- eric
Bug#992639: debianutils: move of installkernel to /usr/sbin/installkernel breaks kernel build on system with separate / and /usr
Package: debianutils Version: 5.3-1 Severity: normal root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /sbin/installkernel <== manually copied -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 21 août 17:24 /sbin/installkernel root@nas2:/usr/src/linux# ls -l /usr/sbin/installkernel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2659 20 août 13:31 /usr/sbin/installkernel I suspect the link is a hard link that does not work on different filesystem use -s -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.60 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debianutils depends on: ii libc6 2.31-16 debianutils recommends no packages. debianutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
