Bug#364429: initramfs-tools: fails to boot with EVMS root

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.59b
Severity: important

Since I upgraded initramfs-tools from 0.53c -> 0.59b (testing machine),
new initramfs-es refuse to boot my EVMS root. The boot log is a little
long to paste, but a summary follows:

  [boot]
  Loading, please wait...
  Begin: Loading essential drivers...
  [unix]
  Done.
  Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ...
  [load sata, nic, etc.]
  Done.
  Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
  Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
  [load dm, md]
  Error returned from evms_open_engine(): No such file or directory
  mknod: sda: File exists
  mknod: sda1: File exists
  [repeat for all other drives and partitions]
  [start md0 and md1]
  Done.
  Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...

At this point, it hangs forever.

I'm actually not 100% sure what the EVMS error means, but AFAIK it can
be related to a missing /var/lock. I can't, however, find anything
in the initramfs-tools changelogs about that. Any ideas?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.3
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.01-4   Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                          2.6-11     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils                   1.2.4-1    small statically-linked utilities 
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-2    tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                          0.089-1    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

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