Bug#478236: initramfs 0.92 makes slug unbootable (armel/lenny)
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.92
Severity: important
Hi! When I update from 0.91e to 0.92, the newly created initrd makes my
slug unbootable. While trying to boot, the initrd hangs waiting for root
file system. Reinstalling the previous 0.91e with everything else
unchanged and re-creating the initrd repairs the system.
Please let me know what I can do to help find this bug. I attached some
useful information P.S. Thank you in advance for looking at this!
Best regards
Kevin Price
In the unbootable state, The serial console says this:
[...]---snip
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access HDT72252 5DLA380 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
---snap
...and there it hangs. Up to here I can see no error. In a normal system
boot, the following
lines would follow immediately after:
---snip
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ...
Done.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
INIT: version 2.86 booting
[...]---snap
The system disk sda is an external 250GB hdd connected by USB2.
Partitions:
sda2 swap
sda1 ext3 /
sda3 ext3 /media/data
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200 rtc-x1205.probe=0,0x6f noirqdebug
-- /proc/filesystems
cramfs
ext3
fuseblk
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
ledtrig_heartbeat 3040 0
nf_conntrack_ipv4 19272 1
xt_state 2592 1
nf_conntrack 70996 2 nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state
xt_multiport 3328 1
iptable_filter 3008 1
ip_tables 13800 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 15556 3 xt_state,xt_multiport,ip_tables
tun 12320 0
sit 12328 0
tunnel4 4072 1 sit
ipv6 279880 27 sit
fuse 50004 1
evdev 11584 0
ixp4xx_eth 16152 0
ixp4xx_npe 8672 2 ixp4xx_eth
firmware_class 10112 1 ixp4xx_npe
ixp4xx_qmgr 6136 6 ixp4xx_eth
ixp4xx_beeper 3552 0
ext3 138056 2
jbd 49748 1 ext3
mbcache 9152 1 ext3
sd_mod 26896 4
usb_storage 84103 3
scsi_mod 120276 2 sd_mod,usb_storage
ohci_hcd 21348 0
ehci_hcd 34316 0
usbcore 139480 4 usb_storage,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = yes
postinst_hook = flash-kernel
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-ixp4xx
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii cpio 2.9-13 GNU cpio -- a program to ma
ii findutils 4.4.0-2 utilities for finding files
ii klibc-utils 1.5.9-1 small statically-linked uti
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux ke
ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug managemen
Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.1.3-5 Tiny utilities for small an
-- no debconf information
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