Hi... I'm comming with news that might explain things... First I've diffed the initrds on the two machines I talked about in my initial report... The one that breaks is "1" and the one that works is "2"... I attach the diff file... Another interesting detail is dpkg -l lvm\*... On 1 it gives me: un lvm <none> (no description available) un lvm-binaries <none> (no description available) ii lvm-common 1.5.17 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux (common files) ii lvm10 1.0.8-8 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux ii lvm2 2.00.24-1 The Linux Logical Volume Manager un lvm5 <none> (no description available) un lvm6 <none> (no description available) On 2 it gives me (I guess the french locales won't be a problem): un lvm <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible) un lvm-binaries <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible) ii lvm-common 1.5.17 The Logical Volume Manager for Linux (common files) un lvm10 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible) ii lvm2 2.00.24-1 The Linux Logical Volume Manager un lvm5 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible) un lvm6 <néant> (aucune description n'est disponible) Now I've a guess on my mistake... <after a little test> Good guess... After removing lvm10, reinstalling kernel-image does give a good initrd... I attach the diff between "2" and the new one "3" for info... I guess the diffs are easily explained by the differences between the two boxes... Now the problem seems clear to me... Remains to choose how to solve it... -- Eric Deplagne
Binary files /mnt/initrd1/bin/awk and /mnt/initrd2/bin/awk differ Only in /mnt/initrd2/bin: mkdir Only in /mnt/initrd2/bin2: mkdir File /mnt/initrd1/dev/console is a character special file while file /mnt/initrd2/dev/console is a character special file Only in /mnt/initrd1/dev: lvm File /mnt/initrd1/dev/null is a character special file while file /mnt/initrd2/dev/null is a character special file Only in /mnt/initrd2/etc: lvm diff -ru /mnt/initrd1/etc/modules.conf /mnt/initrd2/etc/modules.conf --- /mnt/initrd1/etc/modules.conf 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ /mnt/initrd2/etc/modules.conf 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -95,6 +95,24 @@ ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/paths +### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/setserial +# +# This is what I wanted to do, but logger is in /usr/bin, which isn't loaded +# when the module is first loaded into the kernel at boot time! +# +#post-install serial /etc/init.d/setserial start | logger -p daemon.info -t "setserial-module reload" +#pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial stop | logger -p daemon.info -t "setserial-module uload" +# +alias /dev/tts serial +alias /dev/tts/0 serial +alias /dev/tts/1 serial +alias /dev/tts/2 serial +alias /dev/tts/3 serial +post-install serial /etc/init.d/setserial modload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null +pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial modsave > /dev/null 2> /dev/null + +### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/setserial + ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/arch/i386 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias char-major-10-144 nvram Only in /mnt/initrd2/lib: libdevmapper.so.1.00 Only in /mnt/initrd2/lib: libdl.so.2 Only in /mnt/initrd1/lib: liblvm-10.so.1 Only in /mnt/initrd2/lib: libm.so.6 Only in /mnt/initrd1/lib: lvm-10 Only in /mnt/initrd2/lib: lvm-200 diff -ru /mnt/initrd1/loadmodules /mnt/initrd2/loadmodules --- /mnt/initrd1/loadmodules 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ /mnt/initrd2/loadmodules 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ modprobe -k via82cxxx > /dev/null 2>&1 modprobe -k ide-detect modprobe -k ide-disk -modprobe -k lvm-mod +modprobe -k dm-mod Only in /mnt/initrd1/sbin: vgscan diff -ru /mnt/initrd1/script /mnt/initrd2/script --- /mnt/initrd1/script 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ /mnt/initrd2/script 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ unload_unused_ide 'yes' pdc202xx_new adma100 aec62xx alim15x3 amd74xx atiixp cmd640 cmd64x cs5530 cy82c693 generic hpt34x hpt366 ns87415 opti621 pdc202xx_old piix rz1000 sc1200 serverworks siimage sis5513 slc90e66 triflex trm290 via82cxxx ROOT=/dev/mapper/vg-root -[ -c /dev/lvm ] || mknod /dev/lvm c 109 0 -mount_tmpfs /etc -vgscan +mkdir /devfs/vg +mount_tmpfs /var +if [ -f /etc/lvm/lvm.conf ]; then +cat /etc/lvm/lvm.conf > /var/lvm.conf +fi +mount_tmpfs /etc/lvm +if [ -f /var/lvm.conf ]; then +cat /var/lvm.conf > /etc/lvm/lvm.conf +fi +mount -nt devfs devfs /dev vgchange -a y vg -umount -n /etc +umount /dev +umount -n /var +umount -n /etc/lvm
Binary files /mnt/initrd2/bin/awk and /mnt/initrd3/bin/awk differ File /mnt/initrd2/dev/console is a character special file while file /mnt/initrd3/dev/console is a character special file File /mnt/initrd2/dev/null is a character special file while file /mnt/initrd3/dev/null is a character special file diff -ru /mnt/initrd2/etc/modules.conf /mnt/initrd3/etc/modules.conf --- /mnt/initrd2/etc/modules.conf 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ /mnt/initrd3/etc/modules.conf 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -95,24 +95,6 @@ ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/paths -### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/setserial -# -# This is what I wanted to do, but logger is in /usr/bin, which isn't loaded -# when the module is first loaded into the kernel at boot time! -# -#post-install serial /etc/init.d/setserial start | logger -p daemon.info -t "setserial-module reload" -#pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial stop | logger -p daemon.info -t "setserial-module uload" -# -alias /dev/tts serial -alias /dev/tts/0 serial -alias /dev/tts/1 serial -alias /dev/tts/2 serial -alias /dev/tts/3 serial -post-install serial /etc/init.d/setserial modload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null -pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial modsave > /dev/null 2> /dev/null - -### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/setserial - ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/arch/i386 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias char-major-10-144 nvram Only in /mnt/initrd2/lib: libm.so.6
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