Bug#291386: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686: creates bad initrd with complex lvm2 setup
Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
Version: 2.4.27-7
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
When the install of kernel-image tries to create initrd,
those lines go to /var/log/messages:
Jan 20 09:39:39 fregate kernel: device-mapper: unknown block ioctl 0x801c6d02
Jan 20 09:39:40 fregate last message repeated 14 times
I do have 15 logical volumes, which explains how many times the message is emitted...
I guess I should mention a bit of my partitionning scheme, out of my /etc/fstab:
# system
/dev/mapper/vg-root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-usr_lib /usr/lib ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-usr_share /usr/share ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-doc /usr/share/doc ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-locale /usr/share/locale ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/mapper/vg-cache_apt /var/cache/apt/archives ext3 defaults 0 2
maybe my having /usr/lib on a different logical volume is relevant...
just a guess of mine, of course...
my other logical volumes are one for /home, and some for subdirectories of /home,
so should not be relevant...
Last thing I guess I can mention is that on another machine, with only one logical volume for /,
and one for /home, /var/log/messages gets its two lines, but the system boots properly...
you might notice I presently run a 2.4.27-1-686, this is my rescue that I had a hard time to setup
when the problem first happend to me with the last update of 2.4.27-1-868,
which really hang the computer, having overwritten my working kernel.
(that did not happen this time because of the -1-686 to -2-686 move)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.76 tools to create initrd image for p
ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
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