Bug#354458: Kernel panic after upgrading initramfs-tools/klibc-utils/libklibc

[Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel@msxnet.org>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.52b
Severity: important

Hello,

Yesterday my stock kernel 2.6.15-1-k7 booted fine, but today it panics
with the message that it can't mount the root fs. The 2.6.12 kernel
which I also still have installed works just fine.

It appears that yesterday, in the daily dist-upgrade (on testing), I got
these packages:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root   37520 2006-02-20 14:47 initramfs-tools_0.52b_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  117448 2006-02-18 18:47 klibc-utils_1.2.2-3_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   18582 2006-02-18 18:47 libklibc_1.2.2-3_i386.deb

As I haven't touched the LILO or kernel setup in anyway, I strongly
suspect that one of these broke my kernel boot.

Any ideas for workarounds are welcome!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.01-4   Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                          2.6-10     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils                   1.2.2-3    small statically-linked utilities 
ii  udev                          0.084-5    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

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