Bug#409820: initramfs-tools: mbr_check() does not work reliable with lilo and grub around

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: initramfs-tools Severity: important Inside the mbr_check function in /usr/sbin/update-initramfs we have: dd if=${boot} bs=512 skip=0 count=1 2 /dev/null | grep -q LILO \ run_lilo return 0 This does not work reliable in the following scenario: * lilo is

Bug#401916:

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* David Härdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070201 18:08]: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:16:11PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:38:03PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: So, as a workaround for Etch until this is fixed (presumably by upstream changes to udev and/or the

Bug#401916:

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* David Härdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070206 19:15]: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:14:34AM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: Any further tips, hints,... what I could try? Could you try these lines in the udev script and then mail the contents of /begin.ps, /middle.ps and /finish.ps? It would

Bug#409820: initramfs-tools: mbr_check() does not work reliable with lilo and grub around

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070214 10:57]: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Michael Prokop wrote: i would prefer another solution: what about if we check _before_ for GRUB, does lilo overwrite that string? that would mean to put the grub section of mbr_check in front. As discussed on irc

Bug#401916:

2007-02-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* David Härdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070214 15:15]: Images is fine, thanks. Unfortunately the ps ax output is the same each time so it is no surprise that my approach doesn't work. I do however have another theory, it seems that it can take a sec or two between the loading of usb-storage and

Bug#401916: Bug 401916: analysis and suggested solution

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* David Härdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070219 22:15]: I've attached a patch against the udev and initramfs-tools source packages that implement the following changes...please review: 1) ROOTDELAY is exported by initramfs-tools and used in udev if set 2) Checks in udev for

Bug#414932: linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx: xfs partition from x86 system can not be used on arm

2007-03-14 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 Severity: important I'm using the NSLU2 device with Debian (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/): # uname -a Linux NSLU 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx #1 Thu Feb 22 14:00:55 UTC 2007 armv5tel GNU/Linux The problem: using a partition which has

Bug#401916: Bug 401916

2007-03-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* David Härdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070314 20:58]: Feel free to install the new initramfs-tools, then apply the above patch to udev, install, regenerate the initramfs image and try booting with rootdelay=20 and see if it pauses 20 secs at the right stage of the boot. Ok, just verified

Bug#401916: Bug 401916

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070315 01:15]: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:17:33AM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: * David Härdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070314 20:58]: [...] It would be fine to provide some output while running the sleep $ROOTDELAY so users without usplash_write

Bug#414932: linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx: xfs partition from x86 system can not be used on arm

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070316 21:24]: I just found http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2007-03/msg00078.html which is another XFS problem on NSLU2. Apparently it's because of a miscompilation in XFS on ARM. I'll confirm with the XFS developers whether your problem may be caused

Bug#431291: bug reproducable again

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Prokop
reopen 431291 stop I can reproduce the problem again. :( The system hangs at Begin: Waiting for root file system... when booting using root=UUID=... whereas it works fine using root=/dev/... syntax. No use of mdadm, lvm2,... (though the tools are installed), but really nothing complex

Bug#453822: firmware-ralink: trying to overwrite `/lib/firmware/rt2561s.bin', which is also in package firmware-rt61

2007-12-01 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: firmware-ralink Version: 0.9 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 7.3 [...] Unpacking firmware-ralink (from .../firmware-ralink_0.9_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-ralink_0.9_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/lib/firmware/rt2561s.bin',

Bug#462424: further oops info (2.6.22-3-686)

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Brendan Cully wrote: [...] your kernel is tainted can you reproduce aboves trouble without openafs? That's openafs, which is open source but just lacking MODULE_LICENSE what's tainting the kernel. Irrelevant IMHO. Brendan:

Bug#462424: further oops info (2.6.22-3-686)

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080129 23:47]: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:36:18PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: That's openafs, which is open source but just lacking MODULE_LICENSE what's tainting the kernel. Irrelevant IMHO. But behaves like a rootkit, or did they kill the syscall

Bug#431291: initramfs-tools: booting with root=UUID=... does not work with version 0.88

2007-07-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070701 15:06]: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:39:40PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable hmm not much info attached. Because I don't have any more. ;) Booting with 0.87b works

Bug#433292: firmware-iwlwifi: trying to overwrite `/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945.ucode', which is also in package firmware-iwl3945

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: firmware-iwlwifi Severity: important Unpacking firmware-iwlwifi (from .../firmware-iwlwifi_0.6_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-iwlwifi_0.6_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945.ucode', which is also in package

Bug#440967: cp: `/lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin' and `/tmp/...[snip].../ql2100_fw.bin' are the same file

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: firmware-qlogic Version: 0.7 Severity: normal # update-initramfs -c -t -k $(uname -r) update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-grml [...] cp: `/lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin' and `/tmp/mkinitramfs_V14176/lib/firmware/ql2100_fw.bin' are the same file cp:

Bug#514997: initramfs-tools: scripts/init-premount/thermal loads thermal+fan module even if booting with acpi=off

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: normal scripts/init-premount/thermal always tries to load the fan and thermal kernel module on i386|amd64|ia64 architecture. When booting with acpi=off this generally fails AFAICS and you'll get FATAL: Error inserting fan ... No such device

Re: Critical Temperature

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* timo 2...@famous-timo.de wrote: I have got the following problem: At random X is being closed by force and the terminal says «critical temperature reached» and then some high number around 150°C. At the next moment the computer turns off. That problem occurs with linux 2.6.27 till 2.6.28

svn: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier '/srv/svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/format': Permission non accordée

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, % svn up svn: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier '/srv/svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/format': Permission non accordée Same problem for clean checkout¹ via: % svn: Impossible d'ouvrir le fichier '/srv/svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/format': Permission non accordée ¹ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel

Bug#506533: initramfs-tools: includes .dpkg-new files into initrd

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 506533 - moreinfo thanks * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Mon Dez 15, 2008 at 12:48:55 +0100]: update-initramfs puts a truckload of dpkg-new files into the initrd. please specify them. thanks For example: # echo foo /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.dpkg-new # update-initramfs -k all

Bug#465760: initramfs-tools: Needs to create /lib/modules/${version}/modules.dep in initramfs in case no modules are required

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* coli...@gmail.com coli...@gmail.com [Don Feb 14, 2008 at 11:31:02 -0500]: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.91d Severity: minor Tags: patch this bug is un update to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393688 If your kernel configuration is such that no modules are

Bug#562561: modprobe: could not load modules.dep during boot

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* Felix Koop f...@fkoop.de [Fre Dez 25, 2009 at 11:38:05 +0100]: My systems stops booting most of the times with an error message of: modprobe: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/modules.dep: No such file or directory right after the line that says Loading, please wait... and

Bug#560266: ugly messages if /proc/modules DNE

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Thu Dec 10, 2009 at 11:54:07AM +0100]: On Wed, 09 Dec 2009, Joey Hess wrote: I have no /proc/modules because the system is running a modular kernel. These messages are all due to the firmware checker, and can be avoided safely by skipping the grep if

Bug#570522: initramfs-tools: support generation of initramfs for other/non-running systems

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: wishlist When building an initramfs for e.g. network booting I don't want to modify the main /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf file on the build system before executing update-initramfs but instead would like to be able to use a separate

Bug#562561: modprobe: could not load modules.dep during boot

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Prokop
* Felix Koop f...@fkoop.de [Sam Feb 20, 2010 at 10:16:42 +0100]: Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 12:19 +0100 schrieb Michael Prokop: What's inside your initramfs? Extract it running: cd /tmp ; mkdir init ; cd init gunzip -c /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686 | \ cpio -i -d -H newc

Bug#562561: modprobe: could not load modules.dep during boot

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Prokop
* Felix Koop f...@fkoop.de [Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 02:01:11PM +0100]: Am Samstag, den 20.02.2010, 12:00 +0100 schrieb Michael Prokop: Ok. Is this a self compiled kernel? An official kernel by Debian? Ok, can you please try to run (replace '2.6.32' with the output of `uname -r` of your

Bug#570678: initramfs-tools: fix upstream's git commit a2127d33 to avoid firmware copy error

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Prokop
} .ko) \ This fails for systems without /proc/modules because the check has the wrong logic order. Attached patch addresses this issue. regards, -mika- From 184cd084cb75ab3cfcd451f33597c272b127e1f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Prokop m...@debian.org Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:01:45 +0100

Bug#545920: 'W: Possible missing firmware ... for module e100' even though e100 isn't loaded

2009-09-09 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: normal # update-initramfs -u -k all update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-grml64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d102e_ucode.bin for module e100 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d101s_ucode.bin for

Re: Building vanilla kernel .debs

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Marc Haber wrote: The equivalent to --revision is KDEB_PKGVERSION, but I haven't yet found a way to emulate --append, since this probably needs modification to the upstream version number ending up in include/linux/utsrelease.h. Is

Bug#583917: initramfs-tools: long delay (6–10 minutes) during boot (root device detection) after upgrade on RAID/LVM/LUKS setup

2010-05-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* Paul Menzel pm.deb...@googlemail.com [Mon May 31, 2010 at 06:41:45PM +0200]: yesterday I upgrade my Debian Sid/unstable system after over a week. Several core packages were upgraded by doing this as lvm2, mdadm, initscripts, initramfs-tools. I have a standard md RAID1 setup with LVM over

Bug#584259: initramfs-tools: breaks software suspend (hibernation)

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 584259 + moreinfo thanks * Willi Mann wi...@wm1.at [Mit Jun 02, 2010 at 06:13:08 +0200]: Since the upgrade to 0.94.4 in testing, software suspend's resume does not complete. The screen it ends up with is black except a blinking cursor, but I can use Alt+F1 to switch to a screen that

Bug#584520: initramfs-tools: copy_exec hook function may exit with a non-zero return value in non-verbose mode

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 584520 + fixed pending thanks * Gerrit Keller gerrit.kel...@gmail.com [Fre Jun 04, 2010 at 11:23:21 +0200]: copy_exec hook function may exit with a non-zero return value in non-verbose mode The copy_exec hook function could exit with a return value of 1 in non-verbose mode. This

Bug#439846: initramfs-tools 0.93.2 still uses mode instead of mode_option

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 439846 + fixed pending thanks * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Fre Apr 24, 2009 at 10:51:02 +0200]: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17:27AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: this problem still exists in the current sid version of initramfs-tools. Any plans for updating the framebuffer script?

Bug#550320: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 550320 + moreinfo thanks * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Mit Mär 24, 2010 at 12:10:31 +0100]: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Peng Tao wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Peng Tao bergw...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, maximilian attems m...@stro.at wrote: thanks,

Bug#505609: new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
[Dropped the @lists.debian.org from Cc] * Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com [Mon Jun 07, 2010 at 11:37:57AM -0400]: On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT), Holger Levsen wrote: thanks for stepping up maintaining lilo in Debian! I hope you'll manage this well. Um, thanks; but I

Bug#582177: initramfs-tools: fails to load ramdisk on boot; ... BOOT DEBUG DATA

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 582177 + moreinfo thanks * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Mit Mai 19, 2010 at 09:49:56 +0200]: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:50:42PM -0400, crop...@acm.org wrote: [...] _ Kernel output (LITERAL DATA, except for ... area below): [1.185516]

Bug#582858: initramfs-tools: MODULES=dep fails when / is ubifs

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [Mon Jun 07, 2010 at 06:10:49 +0100]: * Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2010-06-07 15:07]: The patch below works for me. Can you try it? I should mention that works for me means that the initramfs will be generated without error. Thanks for the patch,

Bug#549680: fails with RAID over entire IDE disks

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 549680 + fixed pending thanks * Simon Richter simon.rich...@hogyros.de [Mit Okt 07, 2009 at 09:57:33 +0200]: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:01:38AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: please post output of: sh -x mkinitramfs -o /dev/null Attached. The bug is fairly obvious, device names in

Bug#582177: initramfs-tools: fails to load ramdisk on boot; ... BOOT DEBUG DATA

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
* crop...@acm.org crop...@acm.org [Mon Jun 07, 2010 at 08:45:25PM -0400]: synchronize? I don't understand... I have actually pulled different devices in-and-out of the MD devices, let the MD driver rebuild each MD device and made sure the real sda is disk number 0. It does not seem

Bug#514756: doesn't handle additional arguments in /proc/mdstat, and has device assumptions

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [Die Feb 10, 2009 at 05:15:52 +0100]: A Debian user ran into a problem with initramfs-tools using a fairly strange setup that's described at http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=147t=11422 The entry for root in /proc/mdstat looks like this: | md1 :

Bug#550320: /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6

2010-06-07 Thread Michael Prokop
* Peng Tao bergw...@gmail.com [Tue Jun 08, 2010 at 09:18:08AM +0800]: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Michael Prokop m...@debian.org wrote: * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Mit Mär 24, 2010 at 12:10:31 +0100]: sorry for late reply, can you still reproduce aboves? what is ls -l /lib64

Bug#582858: initramfs-tools: MODULES=dep fails when / is ubifs

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [Tue Jun 08, 2010 at 09:58:34AM +0100]: * Michael Prokop m...@debian.org [2010-06-08 01:21]: Thanks for the patch, Martin. Can I apply it already to i-t? Sure. Thanks, done. I'm not claiming that you'll actually be able to boot from ubifs

Bug#501359: initramfs-tools: MODULES=dep does not like Xen virtual block devices

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 501359 + moreinfo thanks * Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk [Die Apr 06, 2010 at 04:43:15 +0100]: On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 04:23 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: sorry for late reponse, 0.94 changed a bit the way sysfs is walked. could you please check against it if MODULES=dep is fixed?

Bug#550584: flash-kernel not run when going to new upstream kernel version

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Son Okt 11, 2009 at 01:32:41 +0200]: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:13:13PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: When you install a new kernel version (e.g. 2.6.29 - 2.6.30, or 2.6.30-1 to 2.6.31-2) the new version is not written to flash. This is because

Bug#501969: details and possible patch

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Kieran Maclean ka...@st-andrews.ac.uk [Sam Okt 25, 2008 at 11:00:56 +0100]: The issue is present on machines such as this using lilo as the bootloader. It can also be reproduced on the same hardware by installing the etch.5 kernel onto a clean etch install. The issue seems to be that the

Bug#506540: initramfs-tools - Always dereferences symlinks

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org [Sam Nov 22, 2008 at 02:06:24 +0100]: mkinitramfs always expands symlinks. busybox for example is always added two times. Verified. busybox is added as /bin/sh as well as /bin/busybox and it also affects some other files (depending on the setup). Even though

Bug#582177: initramfs-tools: fails to load ram... /proc/mdstat

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Cropper, C. A. crop...@acm.org [Mon Jun 07, 2010 at 09:27:28 -0400]: Can you please provide output of cat /proc/mdstat of the running linux system? r...@loomis:/# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid6 sdg4[0] sde4[5](S) sdf4[4] sdb4[3]

Bug#481104: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: update-initramfs edits /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
reassign 481104 cryptsetup thanks * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Don Jul 10, 2008 at 11:57:52 +0200]: On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:51:22PM +0300, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: Not to my surprise, you were right :-) I just deleted the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot file, and run again

Bug#537139: initramfs-tools: please include update-initramfs bash completion

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, dear Bash Completion Maintainers, can you please check out the attached bash completion (#537139)? I'm not a bash user and can't judge whether that's the way to go or anything should be changed. Should we add this to package initramfs-tools or would you mind adding it to bash-completion?

Bug#509077: initramfs-tools: support alternate DHCP port and DHCP vendor-class-identifier

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Vagrant Cascadian vagrant+debianb...@freegeek.org [Mit Dez 17, 2008 at 07:01:51 -0800]: please consider the attached patch, which adds boot prompt parameters for two of ipconfig's commandline options in the configure_networking function: - using an alternate DHCP port (dhcpport=NNN,

Bug#468115: Support for mount failure hooks.

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Luke Yelavich luke.yelav...@canonical.com [Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 02:21:28PM +1100]: Attached is a patch to allow scripts in either local-top or init-premount to register hook to perform specific actions in the event the root device cannot be found. A good use for this is when an attemt is

Bug#512679: initramfs-tools: 'more' pager is broken in initramfs shell

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [Son Feb 21, 2010 at 03:36:09 +0100]: I can reproduce the problem for Lenny in the initramfs debug shell, but more works fine if I do 'busybox sh' and then 'find | more'. I guess that the most likely cause of the problem is either console or keyboard

Bug#506540: initramfs-tools - Always dereferences symlinks

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@debian.org [Tue Jun 08, 2010 at 01:59:35PM +0200]: * Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org [Sam Nov 22, 2008 at 02:06:24 +0100]: mkinitramfs always expands symlinks. busybox for example is always added two times. Verified. busybox is added as /bin/sh as well as /bin/busybox

Bug#396388: should allow hooks to abort build

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joey Hess jo...@debian.org [Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 01:39:55PM -0500]: mkinitramfs is not a set -x script, and so when call_scripts runs a hook script, any error is ignored. I guess you meant set -e. In some cases, a hook script needs to abort the initramfs build. For example, then

Bug#582776: initramfs-tools: pointless generation of an initrd for initrd-free custom kernels

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Darren Salt d...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk [Son Mai 23, 2010 at 03:26:28 +0100]: While installing a locally-built kernel (which doesn't require an initrd), I found that /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools was nevertheless generating an initrd for that kernel. This causes breakage

Bug#584583: initramfs-tools: configure_networking function: repeatedly makes DHCP requests

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 584583 + moreinfo thanks * Vagrant Cascadian vagrant+debianb...@freegeek.org [Fre Jun 04, 2010 at 01:18:04 -0700]: i've been testing the newest initramfs-tools network booting support, though it seems to make 10 DHCP requests in rapid sucession. fortunately, the last DHCP request does

Bug#409271: Status of this bug ?

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Steinar H. Gunderson sgunder...@bigfoot.com [Son Aug 10, 2008 at 05:03:28 +0200]: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:35:23PM +0200, Fabrice Lorrain wrote: I've just read through bts #409271 :initramfs-tools: NFSv4 not supported for root fs and I'm interrested in knowing the status of this bug

Bug#582177: initramfs-tools: fails to load ram... /proc/mdstat

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Cropper, C. A. crop...@acm.org [Tue Jun 08, 2010 at 08:28:58AM -0400]: Looks ok. /dev/sda is the device you're booting from? I don't know. The bios is set to boot from SAS disk 0 which is **usually** /dev/sda; however, when my firewire drive is connected, on boot all the drives are

Bug#585992: initramfs-tools: in KVM machine modules=dep does not add virtio_pci

2010-06-16 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 585992 + pending thanks * Vincent Danjean vdanj...@debian.org [Tue Jun 15, 2010 at 05:56:39PM +0200]: On 15/06/2010 16:23, Michael Prokop wrote: * Vincent Danjean vdanj...@debian.org [Tue Jun 15, 2010 at 03:59:28PM +0200]: In a KVM machine using virtio block disk (target dev='vda

Bug#584259: initramfs-tools: breaks software suspend (hibernation)

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* Willi Mann wi...@wm1.at [Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 06:53:21PM +0200]: -- resume # RESUME=/dev/sda6 RESUME='LABEL=amdlinux-swap' Does it work with 'RESUME=/dev/disk/by-label/amdlinux-swap'? No. Ok. If it still does not work then: can you please extract the broken and the working

Bug#585992: initramfs-tools: in KVM machine modules=dep does not add virtio_pci

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* Vincent Danjean vdanj...@debian.org [Thu Jun 17, 2010 at 05:38:53PM +0200]: On 17/06/2010 02:04, Michael Prokop wrote: Could you please test whether: http://people.debian.org/~mika/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.96.2~1.gbpac022d_all.deb fixes your issue (sha1sum + gpg signed

initramfs-tools 0.97 release

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Prokop
): Produce an error when root cannot be determined with MODULES=dep hook-functions/init/scripts/local: add support for ubifs. Michael Prokop (25): Fix bug number in changelog (#584520 - #549680) for upload of 0.96.1. hook-functions/mkinitramfs/update-initramfs: consequently output error

Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we could receive feedback from testers. The new release is available from Debian/unstable and

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 586554 + moreinfo thanks * drb thebickh...@ntlworld.com [Sun Jun 20, 2010 at 03:42:34PM +0100]: Unpacking replacement initramfs-tools ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up initramfs-tools (0.97) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/initramfs-tools/update-

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* thebickhams thebickh...@ntlworld.com [Mon Jun 21, 2010 at 08:51:00AM +0100]: The output is as follows : # sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.postinst + set -e + [ ! -e /etc/initramfs-tools/modules ] + [ x != xtriggered ] + dpkg --compare-versions ge 1.14.5ubuntu10~~ +

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* thebickhams thebickh...@ntlworld.com [Mon Jun 21, 2010 at 11:35:52AM +0100]: On 06/21/2010 11:17 AM, Michael Prokop wrote: sh -x /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u 1/tmp/update-initramfs.log 21 Running as root (not sudo), log file attached. + STATEDIR=/var/lib/initramfs-tools [...] + return 0

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* thebickhams thebickh...@ntlworld.com [Mon Jun 21, 2010 at 12:11:12PM +0100]: Still won't update. I note three other people have reported the issue in the sidux forums; both 32bit and 64bit. Please provide output of: apt-get --download-only --reinstall --print-uris install

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@debian.org [Mon Jun 21, 2010 at 01:22:01PM +0200]: * thebickhams thebickh...@ntlworld.com [Mon Jun 21, 2010 at 12:11:12PM +0100]: Still won't update. I note three other people have reported the issue in the sidux forums; both 32bit and 64bit. Please provide output

Bug#582776: initramfs-tools: pointless generation of an initrd for initrd-free custom kernels

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Tue Jun 22, 2010 at 12:10:55AM +0200]: On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Michael Prokop wrote: What about a configuration variable to completely disable it (as mentioned above) and another one to white- or blacklist specific kernels? well we could have one that can

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Tue Jun 22, 2010 at 12:06:00AM +0200]: your first report shows clearly an mkinitramfs failure, currently we don't know where to trace it. While discussing this with maks we also noticed that this could be caused by a problem in a hook script shipped with

Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 586554 - moreinfo tags 586554 + pending thanks * thebickhams thebickh...@ntlworld.com [Tue Jun 22, 2010 at 12:03:29AM +0100]: [...] find /usr/share/initramfs-tools -print0 | xargs -0 dpkg -S iscan, initramfs-tools, udev, dmsetup: /usr/share/initramfs-tools iscan:

Bug#586381: initramfs-tools: lsinitramfs fails with non-gzipped initramfs images

2010-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net [Sat Jun 19, 2010 at 02:26:05AM +0200]: lsinitramgs fails with non-gzipped (well at least with lzma-ed) initramfs images: gzip: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33: not in gzip format cpio: premature end of archive Thanks for reporting. We're not yet

Bug#586381: initramfs-tools: lsinitramfs fails with non-gzipped initramfs images

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net [Tue Jun 22, 2010 at 09:24:12AM +0200]: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 02:05 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Thanks for reporting. We're not yet sure what might be the best approach to distinguish between different compression versions but could you

Bug#581596: linux-2.6: pxe-booting a qemu-kvm or kvm guest with virtio network (fai-client) produces kernel panic

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Die Jun 29, 2010 at 11:57:38 +0200]: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:38:36PM +0200, Holger Fischer wrote: it's not a kernel problem. When installing the newer initramfs-tools from official lenny fai repo (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/lenny/,

Re: Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de [Sun Jun 27, 2010 at 05:03:02PM +0200]: Michael Prokop m...@debian.org wrote on 2010-06-18 23:48: we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is expected to fix many

Bug#586554: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 in Debian testing when upgrading from 0.96 to 0.97

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Prokop
* Andreas Neudecker zap...@gmx.net [Wed Jun 30, 2010 at 12:05:37PM +0200]: Same problem occured here during upgrade from 0.96 to 0.97. Now, I am not even sure the machine will boot properly next time as apparently rebuilding the initramfs failed. [...] Eventually I found the notice in a

Bug#586554: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 in Debian testing when upgrading from 0.96 to 0.97

2010-07-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Alesh Slovak alesh.slo...@avasys.jp [Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 11:46:03AM +0900]: On 06/30/2010 07:25 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: We are working on new initramfs-tools version which should display the source of the problem then, I'll be investigating on the iscan issue in more detail as well

Bug#588241: update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686

2010-07-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* Dirk Schleicher dirk.schleic...@gmx.de [Tue Jul 06, 2010 at 02:39:33PM +0200]: I have problem to update initramfs-tools ein (0.97) ... Richte initramfs-tools ein (0.97) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Verarbeite Trigger für initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs:

Bug#588452: softdep modules not included in initramfs when MODULES=dep is specified

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com [Thu Jul 08, 2010 at 10:53:20AM -0400]: softdep modules are not included in the initial RAM file system when MODULES=dep is specified. Here's an example from the s390 architecture: /etc/modprobe.d/dasd.conf: options dasd_mod

Bug#588517: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 331: lzop -9: not found while updating a initramfs for kernel 2.6.34.1

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de [Fri Jul 09, 2010 at 11:52:58AM +0200]: shambhala:~ update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.34.1-tp42-toi-3.1.1.1-04990-g3a7d1f4 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.34.1-tp42-toi-3.1.1.1-04990-g3a7d1f4 W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no

Bug#588452: dependencies using softdep option

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, when using something like the following in /etc/modprobe.d/dasd.conf: options dasd_mod dasd=0.0.0200(diag),0.0.0201,0.0.0202-0.0.0203(diag) softdep dasd_eckd_mod pre: dasd_diag_mod softdep dasd_fba_mod pre: dasd_diag_mod currently there doesn't exist a possibility to display such

Bug#588466: klibc-utils: kernel panic when resume failed and normal boot continues

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 06:13:15PM +0200]: On Thu, 08 Jul 2010, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: --- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/resume~ 2010-07-07 23:13:20.0 +0200 +++ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/resume

Bug#588517: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 331: lzop -9: not found while updating a initramfs for kernel 2.6.34.1

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de [Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 10:12:45PM +0200]: Am Freitag 09 Juli 2010 schrieb Michael Prokop: * Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de [Fri Jul 09, 2010 at 11:52:58AM +0200]: shambhala:~ update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.34.1-tp42-toi-3.1.1.1-04990-g3a7d1f4

Bug#588915: postinst: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 199: do_b: unbound variable

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ben Harris bj...@cam.ac.uk [Die Jul 13, 2010 at 01:10:43 +0100]: wraith:~# dpkg --configure initramfs-tools Setting up initramfs-tools (0.97.2) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating

Re: Bug#588936: initramfs-tools: still does not work with kernel-package kernels

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 07:47:13PM +0200]: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:51:12PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 06:20:33PM +0200]: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:23:39PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 01:13:01AM +0200]: for testing purposes, I installed the upstart binary as /sbin/upstart and created a symlink /sbin/init → /sbin/upstart This causes a boot failure, due to this check in /usr/share/initramfs- tools/init # Check init

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 02:16:32AM +0200]: On 29.07.2010 01:37, Michael Prokop wrote: * Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 01:13:01AM +0200]: for testing purposes, I installed the upstart binary as /sbin/upstart and created a symlink /sbin

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 03:53:03AM +0200]: On 29.07.2010 03:01, Michael Prokop wrote: * Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 02:16:32AM +0200]: Why is it installing itself to /bin/systemd? Is it supposed to be executed by non-root users as well

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 04:26:16AM +0200]: On 30.07.2010 04:15, Michael Biebl wrote: Besides, I noticed that if no valid init is found, I get a kernel panic, but I assume I should get a rescue shell. I guess this might be due to the following: # Search for

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 04:15:44AM +0200]: On 30.07.2010 03:57, Michael Prokop wrote: Does not work. For one, I guess this check if [ ! -x ${rootmnt}${init} ] || [ ! -x ${rootmnt}${initsymlinktarget} ] ; should be using . Even after fixing that, we run

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 01:04:30PM +0200]: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:49:32AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: On 30.07.2010 11:31, Michael Biebl wrote: On 30.07.2010 06:21, Michael Prokop wrote: Can you please give the following snapshot version a try

Bug#590744: Fails to boot if /sbin/init is a symlink

2010-07-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 11:49:32AM +0200]: On 30.07.2010 11:31, Michael Biebl wrote: On 30.07.2010 06:21, Michael Prokop wrote: Can you please give the following snapshot version a try: http://people.debian.org/~mika/initramfs-tools/initramfs

Bug#591325: initramfs-tools: kernel does not boot without network connection

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 591325 + moreinfo thanks * Євгеній Мещеряков eu...@debian.org [Mon Aug 02, 2010 at 10:21:03AM +0200]: Recently during boot initramfs started to send DHCP RARP request to all network interfaces. This behaviour was not observed before and I changed nothing in initramfs-tools configuration

Bug#584583: Bug#552554: ipconfig does not time out (klibc-utils)

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Prokop
tags 552554 - moreinfo tags 584583 - moreinfo severity 552554 grave thanks * maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Thu Apr 22, 2010 at 06:54:06AM +0200] in bug #552554: hmm, unstable got newer klibc innbetwen, 1.5.17 should fix most of the listed pain, although 1.5.18-1 would be recommended, just

Bug#584583: Bug#552554: ipconfig does not time out (klibc-utils)

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [Tue Aug 03, 2010 at 11:14:59PM +0200]: On Mon, 02 Aug 2010, Michael Prokop wrote: maks, you can easily reproduce this issue with kvm, a live system (latest Grml release works fine) and two virtual NICs. If you need any further information I'm happy

Bug#591038: initramfs-tools: udev goes crazy spawnings many processes

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* Zaar Hai stronghold.dev.fornova@fornova.net [Sat Jul 31, 2010 at 01:35:11PM +0300]: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.97.2 Severity: important Recentl my system has stopped booting. I have two MD raid arrays with LVM on top of them. Each LVM volume (including root and swap) are

initramfs-tools 0.98 release

2010-08-07 Thread Michael Prokop
binary. shortlog has the details: Michael Prokop (14): fix typos in manpage, scripts/functions and conf/initramfs.conf - thanks lintian debian/NEWS: drop asterisk chars to make lintian happy install doc-base file for doc-base-registration add debian/source/format with 3.0

Bug#584583: [PATCH] Additional fix for ipconfig

2010-08-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* Julien-externe BLACHE julien-externe.bla...@edf.fr [Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 08:38:42AM +0200]: m...@stro.at wrote on 08/12/2010 08:00:21 PM: Commit 4efbcf90f60e27febe883ef052454d8cfded5c15 really is the root of all evil, it badly broke ipconfig by doing a lot of changes all over the place

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk [Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 03:09:06PM +0100]: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Consider building a filesystem image inside a chroot which one is about to build into a live filesystem image with mksquashfs or something. In the event that

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