Control: severity -1 normal Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -1 update-initramfs in chroot fails with btrfs Control: tag -1 moreinfo Control: reassign -2 partman-crypto Control: retitle -2 no cryptsetup in initrd when btrfs selected btrfs is still not a recommended filesystem, so downgrading this to normal. On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 03:04 +0000, jnqnfe wrote: > control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools > control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: fails to work with btrfs > control: severity -1 grave > > I think that my issues might all stem from initramfs-tools, so > reassigning. I don't think so - other packages hook into initramfs-tools and are quite capable of breaking it. > Firstly, I cannot run update-initramfs within a chroot via a live CD > against this btrfs based install because it gets confused about where > root is (see original cry for help), and which is at least a bug > against initramfs-tools in it's own right anyway. What are the error messages? > Secondly, the other issue I believe is due to the initrd created by > debian-installer missing at least cryptsetup; I believe > debian-installer runs update-initramfs towards the end, so perhaps > this is where debian-installer is trying to add things like cryptsetup > to initrd, and it is actually silently failing here due to same issue > above. initramfs-tools doesn't make that decision - cryptsetup does. And if cryptsetup isn't installed or configured properly, that's the fault of partman-crypto. Ben. > @Maintainer - thoughts? I'd really like to get this solved. > > -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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