Bug#291386: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686: creates bad initrd with complex lvm2 setup
reassign 291386 initrd-tools
thanks
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:17:34PM +0100, Eric Deplagne wrote:
> 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
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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