Bug#343302: marked as done (initramfs-tools: should not regenerate images on upgrade)
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From: "David =?UTF-8?Q?H=C3=A4rdeman?=" <david@2gen.com>
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Subject: initramfs-tools: should not regenerate images on upgrade
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Package: initramfs-tools
Severity: important
The latest version of initramfs-tools (0.44) calls update-initramfs in
postinst to regenerate the latest initramfs on upgrades (see initramfs-tools
changelog, version 0.40ubuntu6).
This can be potentially very dangerous if the newer initramfs-tools for some
reason generates unbootable images as all images will be replaced with
unbootable ones (meaning that even older kernels kept in /boot as a fallback
solution might fail).
For instance, earlier combinations of initramfs-tools and udev automatically
loaded the ide-disk module for me. 0.44 doesn't and since it replaced all
initramfs-images without warning, none of my kernels boot (ok, it was simple
to fix, insmod the module, resume boot, then fix the error and regenerate the
images).
I think the auto-regereration should:
o be reverted; or
o carry a big warning; or
o be configurable
Regards,
David
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From: Maximilian Attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
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Subject: Re: Bug#343302: initramfs-tools: should not regenerate images on upgrade
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:42:35PM +0100, David H=E4rdeman wrote:
<snipp>
>=20
> Thanks for the feedback, I can confirm that the problem no longer seems=
=20
> to be present with a recent version of initramfs-tools. I still believe=
=20
> that one of the earlier versions did behave differently though (as all=20
> of my initramfs images were updated), but that is no longer relevant.=20
> The bug can be closed...
update-initramfs script didn't change.
the unfortunate situation was that the update broke setups.
=20
> By the way, what is meant by "updating the default kernel version",=20
> which version is considered to be default?
the newest one, 2.6.15 is preferred over 2.6.14 for example
or 2.6.15-2 over 2.6.15-1 in the case of an abi pump.
regards
--
maks
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