Bug#362816: initramfs-tools: Initramfs-tools creates a buggy initrd image file.
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.59b
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Today, I updated my system. It updated two things important I think :
linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 and initramfs-tools. Strangely, linux-image was
already the same version, so apt just updated a up-to-date package.
But after rebooting (as it asked for during the install process), I
received the following message : "Begin : Waiting for root file
system..." and waiting for about 4 minutes, the Busybox shell was shown.
After some research, it turned out that the initrd image file had a
problem. I tred to fix it creating a new initrd image with mkinitramfs
-k 2.6.15-1-686 -u -t, but it showed the same problem at boot up. Then I
used mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-img-2.6.15-1-686 2.6.15-1-686 and it
worked well on reboot.
Strange, isn't it ?
-- 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 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_CH, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH (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 2.6-11 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 0.085-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
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