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Title: panic=-1 is completely ignored by the initrd causing unexpected behaviour Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: New Status in initramfs-tools source package in Xenial: New Status in initramfs-tools source package in Bionic: New Bug description: in Ubuntu Core we default to using panic=-1 on the kernel command line (documented at [1]) to speed up the auto-rollback mechanism of the kernel. on a kernel level this works just fine and the system reboots immediately ... when in the initramfs during boot and a panic occurs, no reboot happens at all, the initrd spawns a shell regardless of the panic= value ... this is caused by a filter in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init panic=*) panic="${x#panic=}" case ${panic} in *[![:digit:].]*) panic= ;; esac ;; this function only lets positive values through, else panic= simply gets unset the panic() function itself is also not capable of handling negative values, it has a sleep call that interprets negative values as commandline options instead of simply ignoring a negative sleep time [2] (line 11). the filter in the init script should allow the -1 value (to comply with the kernel documentation and behaviour) and the panic() function should properly skip the sleep call when a negative value for panic= is set. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.17/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt#L2931 [2] https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mswD8Cd869/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1831252/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp