Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.90a Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi, I have the same situation described by Beojan in one of my boxes but not the other two - all three are debian testing. His solution - yaird - also worked for me. Reading the bug report I came about an interesting point in that the phrases below do not apply to me as my systems always were/are debian: " i'm sorry but your initramfs-tools is not from debian, we _never_ shipped with an modprobe -Q argument in those boot scripts. " " >You may wish to know that I switched to Debian from Feisty using > dist-upgrade, and udev > didn't get upgraded. " A call to egrep -r modprobe /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ shows some modprobe commands, all are without options such as: tatarana:/etc/default# egrep -r modprobe /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ | head -2 /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ps3:modprobe ps3_storage /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ps3:modprobe gelic_net I run apt-get dist-upgrade regularly on these systems. Yesterday - oct 14 2007 - I brought all three up to date. Only one maintained the problem. The other two booted ok with new 2.6.22-2 kernel. My systems differ only in installed packages and initial install date. I do not get any deb files outside of apt. At the end of this message is my sources.list for reference. My current initramfs is also 0.90a. tatarana:~# ls /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep initram initramfs-tools_0.89_all.deb initramfs-tools_0.90a_all.deb initramfs-tools_0.90_all.deb Since apt installed kernel 2.6.21-2 on my system I get the "Waiting for root filesystem" at boot time error. What is amazing is that my other two boxes have also up to date kernels and never had this problem. I initially reported this error as a kernel error but was unable to do a good follow-up on it. I imagined that as the kernel evolved the problem would dissapear. Since it did not I resumed trying to figure out the situation. Beojan's report reproduced my error. His modprobe -Q explanation though does not seem to apply to my computer. I hope a comparision of my three systems will help in finding the cause of this problem. Thanks for your help, I am available to supply any necessary information. Miguel sources.list information tatarana:~# grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline root=/dev/hda1 ro -- /proc/filesystems cramfs ext3 fuseblk vfat -- lsmod Module Size Used by tcp_diag 1760 0 inet_diag 11432 1 tcp_diag nls_iso8859_1 4128 1 nls_cp437 5792 1 vfat 12032 1 fat 48540 1 vfat sd_mod 27136 2 usb_storage 76608 1 ppdev 8676 0 lp 10980 0 thermal 13416 0 fan 4836 0 button 7920 0 ac 5188 0 battery 9988 0 xt_TCPMSS 4672 1 xt_tcpmss 2176 1 xt_tcpudp 3072 8 xt_state 2432 12 processor 31016 1 thermal speedstep_lib 5156 0 cpufreq_ondemand 8300 0 cpufreq_powersave 1792 0 cpufreq_userspace 4128 0 cpufreq_stats 5120 0 freq_table 4512 2 cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats cpufreq_conservative 6888 0 ipt_LOG 5952 0 iptable_mangle 2784 1 iptable_filter 2944 1 iptable_nat 7204 1 ip_tables 12260 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,iptable_nat nf_nat 17964 1 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 17772 14 iptable_nat nf_conntrack 60424 4 xt_state,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4 nfnetlink 5752 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack x_tables 14372 7 xt_TCPMSS,xt_tcpmss,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ipt_LOG,iptable_nat,ip_tables pppoe 13184 2 pppox 3848 1 pppoe ppp_generic 26164 6 pppoe,pppox slhc 5888 1 ppp_generic ipv6 236964 41 fuse 41908 1 dm_snapshot 16516 0 dm_mirror 20928 0 dm_mod 52160 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror visor 18316 0 usbserial 31560 1 visor loop 16932 0 tsdev 7968 0 parport_pc 33796 1 analog 11360 0 snd_intel8x0 32124 1 snd_ac97_codec 92836 1 snd_intel8x0 parport 33960 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc ac97_bus 2272 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 39200 0 gameport 14984 1 analog snd_mixer_oss 15424 1 snd_pcm_oss psmouse 36016 0 serio_raw 6692 0 floppy 54884 0 pcspkr 3104 0 rtc 12856 0 tulip 49984 0 dmfe 20476 0 snd_pcm 72324 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21028 1 snd_pcm 8139cp 22144 0 8139too 25536 0 snd 48324 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7520 1 snd sis900 22112 0 mii 5280 3 8139cp,8139too,sis900 snd_page_alloc 9512 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ide_cd 36416 0 cdrom 32832 1 ide_cd i2c_sis96x 5156 0 ohci_hcd 19780 0 sis_agp 9060 1 i2c_core 23552 1 i2c_sis96x usbcore 125096 5 usb_storage,visor,usbserial,ohci_hcd agpgart 31912 1 sis_agp shpchp 31060 0 pci_hotplug 29184 1 shpchp ext3 121224 2 jbd 55336 1 ext3 mbcache 8260 1 ext3 ide_disk 16512 5 pata_sis 13636 0 ata_generic 7556 0 libata 115664 2 pata_sis,ata_generic scsi_mod 136620 3 sd_mod,usb_storage,libata generic 4836 0 [permanent] sis5513 11912 0 [permanent] ide_core 113764 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,sis5513 evdev 9312 3 -- /etc/kernel-img.conf # Kernel image management overrides # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details do_symlinks = yes relative_links = yes do_bootloader = no do_bootfloppy = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = no postinst_hook = update-grub postrm_hook = update-grub -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=most BUSYBOX=y KEYMAP=n BOOT=local DEVICE=eth0 NFSROOT=auto -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii busybox 1:1.1.3-5 Tiny utilities for small and embed ii cpio 2.9-4 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii klibc-utils 1.5-4 small statically-linked utilities ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo initramfs-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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