clone 864320 -1 reassign -1 initramfs-tools retitle -1 update-initramfs silently failed to change \ initrd/conf/conf.d/cryptroot > 4. > > one of my goals is to set up a new drive as a backup -- with > accessibility fixed as much as possible -- in case there are > problems booting to my main drive. however, this is > problematic. > > with or without this: > > i have had many, many, runins with update-initramfs. i > finally settled on something that seemed to work: > > # of course i looked for error messages > update-initramfs -u -k all && > echo update-initramfs returned normal exit code. like i believe that. > # fixme update-grub should, but does not, create /boot/grub/grub.cfg > update-grub > # we do either grub-install or dpkg-reconfigure > # dpkg-reconfigure says what future upgrades should install to > echo enter argument to grub-install like /dev/sdb and sacrifice a goat: > grub-install `line` > > maybe this is totally wrong. i am an ordinary person just > trying to get my computer to work. i tried dpkg-reconfigure > grub-pc also. > > in order to put in the brittle, hardcoded partition syntax, > i did the above. > > but guess what? update-initramfs silently failed to change > initrd/conf/conf.d/cryptroot! > > in the past it silently failed to create it at all, so this > is progress! > > bug fix: don't silently fail > bug fix: don't fail to write a file > bug fix: don't fail to update a file > bug fix: don't make user edit his or her initrd > bug fix: don't make user have to debug @initramfs-tools maintainers: The above report has been lingering in a long multibug report against the base package. It may be worth investigating. Paul
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