Bug#637481: Solved! (Was: /init: /init: 318: cannot open /root/dev/console: No such file)

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

13.08.2011 08:23, auto38092157@hushmail.com пишет:
> I wrote:
> 
>> I wish I didn't feel the need to mention this, but
>> on a related note, I am worried that "apt-get dist-upgrade"
>> (or maybe it was "aptitude full-upgrade") failed to
>> upgrade busybox.
> 
> It turns out that "apt-get dist-upgrade" didn't complete.
> 
> I suspect that's why busybox wasn't upgraded.

1.1.3 busybox is quite old, and I'm afraid to dig that
deep, especially having in mind that you jumped over
several debian versions while upgrading.  Can we perhaps
close this bug now when you solved the issue?

There was an attempt at one point to get rid (correctly!)
of CONFIG_PREFER_APPLETS busybox configuration setting --
where busybox searches for a command in a list of its
applets first and goes to $PATH next if that fails.
That version was one of these, so you actually need the
symlinks such as sh, mount, umount etc to point to busybox
binary.  That version is incompatible with current
initramfs-tools, because mkinitramfs does not create these
symlinks.

So I think it'd be a good idea to add Conflicts: busybox
(<<version) to initramfs-tools package in order to prevent
such situation in the future.  I think it was enabled
again in 1.10.2-2.

/mjt