Public bug reported:
I'm doing a preseeded installation that installs some additional
package, among them the nvidia driver package that triggers dkms
compilation and after that a call to update-initramfs.
If the installer is running a different kernel than the kernel that gets
installed in the destination chroot, this call fails, because update-
initramfs tries to generate the initrd for both kernels. This has
happened this week because 3.13.0-68 is out but there was no new version
of the installer. But it has also happened in the past, it's not a new
issue.
>From my logs, first the kernel gets installed:
========================================
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-68-generic
Found memtest86+ images: /memtest86+.elf /memtest86+.bin
done
Setting up linux-image-extra-3.13.0-68-generic (3.13.0-68.111) ...
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.13.0-68-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/goobuntu-kernel-pruner
3.13.0-68-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.13.0-68-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-68-generic
Adding IMA policy.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 3.13.0-68-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 3.13.0-68-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.13.0-68-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-68-generic
========================================
This runs correctly with no issues, it doesn't try to do anything with
-67. Then comes when the dkms package get installed and the module
built:
========================================
Setting up dkms (2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu5.14.04.5) ...
Setting up nvidia-340 (340.93-0ubuntu0.0.1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-340/ld.so.conf to provide
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto
mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-340/alt_ld.so.conf to provide
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/nvidia-340/glamor.conf to provide
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/glamoregl.conf (glamor_conf) in auto mode
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-67-generic
grep: /boot/config-3.13.0-67-generic: No such file or directory
WARNING: missing /lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic
Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image!
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic: No such
file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
dropbear: NOTICE: Skipping dropbear installation because /etc/crypttab has no
entries.
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:556 kmod_search_moddep() could not open
moddep file '/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.dep.bin'
W: intel-microcode: cpuid kernel driver missing
W: intel-microcode: disabling IUCODE_TOOL_SCANCPUS option
Adding IMA policy.
depmod: WARNING: could not open
/tmp/mkinitramfs_W4WLtO/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.order: No such
file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open
/tmp/mkinitramfs_W4WLtO/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.builtin: No such
file or directory
INFO:Enable nvidia-340
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
Adding system user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 121) ...
Adding new group `nvidia-persistenced' (GID 127) ...
Adding new user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 121) with group
`nvidia-persistenced' ...
Not creating home directory `/'.
Loading new nvidia-340-340.93 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
It is likely that 3.13.0-67-generic belongs to a chroot's host
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.13.0-68-generic
Done.
nvidia_340:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.13.0-68-generic/updates/dkms/
nvidia_340_uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.13.0-68-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod....
DKMS: install completed.
========================================
Notice how dkms realizes that it's an installation chroot and succeeds,
but update-initramfs doesn't and fails (I'm not sure why it's running
when just before it said that it's deferring updates, I guess one
package is triggering while some other package is failing to correctly
use triggers and it's calling it directly) . And then it fails again
when it gets triggered:
========================================
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu4.2) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-68-generic
dropbear: NOTICE: Skipping dropbear installation because /etc/crypttab has no
entries.
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:556 kmod_search_moddep() could not open
moddep file '/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.dep.bin'
W: intel-microcode: cpuid kernel driver missing
W: intel-microcode: disabling IUCODE_TOOL_SCANCPUS option
Adding IMA policy.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-67-generic
grep: /boot/config-3.13.0-67-generic: No such file or directory
WARNING: missing /lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic
Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image!
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic: No such
file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
dropbear: NOTICE: Skipping dropbear installation because /etc/crypttab has no
entries.
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:556 kmod_search_moddep() could not open
moddep file '/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.dep.bin'
W: intel-microcode: cpuid kernel driver missing
W: intel-microcode: disabling IUCODE_TOOL_SCANCPUS option
Adding IMA policy.
depmod: WARNING: could not open
/tmp/mkinitramfs_n7YY5Z/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.order: No such
file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open
/tmp/mkinitramfs_n7YY5Z/lib/modules/3.13.0-67-generic/modules.builtin: No such
file or directory
========================================
update-initramfs should realize that the running kernel is not the
installed kernel and not fail.
** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Adam Conrad (adconrad)
Status: New
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update-initramfs fails during debian-installer if running kernel
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