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Bug#362816: marked as done (initramfs-tools: Initramfs-tools creates a buggy initrd image file.)

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and subject line initramfs-tools: Doesn't find hdd (module ide-disk)
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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.

-- no debconf information

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Version: 0.62

fixed in latest upload, pasting relevant changelog:

initramfs-tools (0.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: We need at least udev 0.086-1, since earlier versions
    had hooks, which don't load ide-disk automatically for 2.6.15 kernels.
    Can't lower dependency to sarge version as it has no coldplug support
    to escape udev dependency loop on upgrade. (closes: #358360, #362816)

  * hook-functions: Add arcmsr to the scsi modules list.

  * debian/NEWS: Add Notice about confdir mv as version 0.61.


thanks for your reports.

-- 
maks

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