Bug#445688: initramfs-tools: creates broken initramfs image

[Beojan Stanislaus <beojan@lavabit.com>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.90a
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

The initramfs image generated by update-initramfs
stalls at a "waiting for root filesystem..." message.
After roughly 5 minutes, it drops to a shell saying the
filesystem doesn't exist. Other initramfs images(yaird)
work with same kernel, same bug on all kernals. 
This is critical because this command is used to generate
the original initramfs when the kernel is installed.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
root=UUID=b507a249-f4b4-4502-8a6b-9fc0f3b39e05 ro quiet splash vga=769

-- /proc/filesystems
	reiserfs
	ext3
	cramfs
	fuseblk

-- lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rfcomm                 65432  0 
l2cap                  49792  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              81124  4 rfcomm,l2cap
capability             17672  0 
commoncap              20096  1 capability
ppdev                  22020  0 
ac                     17796  0 
battery                22532  0 
ipv6                  333600  18 
af_packet              47624  2 
rt73                  227328  0 
dm_snapshot            30760  0 
dm_mirror              35732  0 
dm_mod                 72524  2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
vesafb                 20996  1 
psmouse                50824  0 
lp                     24324  0 
parport                49480  2 ppdev,lp
ide_cd                 44448  0 
cdrom                  49440  1 ide_cd
ide_disk               28928  4 
ata_generic            20996  0 
libata                137880  1 ata_generic
scsi_mod              155148  1 libata
generic                17028  0 [permanent]
uhci_hcd               37520  0 
usbcore               147464  3 rt73,uhci_hcd
piix                   22660  0 [permanent]
8139too                39680  0 
8139cp                 37376  0 
mii                    18432  2 8139too,8139cp
thermal                26760  0 
processor              44664  1 thermal

-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
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: BeejexLinux
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3-ubuntu1BeejexLinux (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                 1:1.1.3-5        Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  busybox-initramfs       1:1.1.3-3ubuntu3 Standalone shell setup for initram
ii  cpio                    2.9-3            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                    108-0ubuntu4     rule-based device node and kernel 

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information