Bug#347902: initramfs-tools: system fails to boot on sparc64

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

reassign 347902 klibc
stop

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Frans Pop wrote:

> With new klibc, latest initramfs-tools and kernel 2.6.15-2, the system 
> fails to boot. It boots without problems if yaird is used to generate the 
> initrd. Not sure if this is a klibc problem or initramfs-tools.
> 
> Drivers look to be loaded OK, partitions are recognized. It fails right at 
> the end somehow. Here's the relevant part of console messages.
> 
> Begin: Mounting root file system ...
> Begin: Running scripts/local-top
> Done.
> Begin: Running scripts/local-premount
> Done.
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds.
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Begin: Running scripts/log-bottom
> Done.
> Done.
> Begin: Running scripts/init-bottom
> Done.
> run-init: statfs /: error 22
> kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!

that's a segfault by run-init very late in the game,
last handoff to the real init. this is an klibc-utils
binary.

so it's definetly an klibc trouble on sparc.

please try to invoke directly some klibc binaries, like:
/usr/lib/klibc/bin/uname -a
do they segfault?

-- 
maks