Bug#440176: mkinitramfs: does not work properly with symlinked config files
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.85h
Severity: important
mkinitramfs (called by update-initramfs, called in postinst) does not work
properly if the config files to be included in the initramfs are symlinks:
root@oolong:~# mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686 2.6.18-5-686
cpio: ./etc/udev/links.conf: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/udev/udev.conf: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/aliases: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/display_class: No such file or directory
cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases: No such file or directory
root@oolong:~# ls -l /etc/udev/links.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2007-08-30 14:25 /etc/udev/links.conf -> ../infra/system-1.0/udev/links.conf
root@oolong:~# ls -l /etc/infra/system-1.0/udev/links.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430 2007-03-23 16:30 /etc/infra/system-1.0/udev/links.conf
strace shows that cpio is already called with --dereference. Since I didn't
find anything about udev in /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs, I don't know how to
proceed further to fix this bug.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/md2 ro console=ttyS0,115200 TERM=vt100
-- /proc/filesystems
cramfs
ext3
ext2
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
sha256 11104 0
aes 28160 4
dm_crypt 10888 1
nfs 202828 0
nfsd 197936 17
exportfs 5600 1 nfsd
lockd 54344 3 nfs,nfsd
nfs_acl 3584 2 nfs,nfsd
sunrpc 138812 13 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl
button 6672 0
ac 5188 0
battery 9636 0
iptable_mangle 2880 0
ipt_MASQUERADE 3712 1
iptable_nat 7044 1
ip_nat 16876 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
ip_conntrack 49088 3 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_nat
nfnetlink 6680 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
ipt_LOG 6112 1
xt_limit 2752 1
ipt_REJECT 5248 2
ipt_TCPMSS 4096 1
xt_tcpudp 3136 18
iptable_filter 3104 1
ip_tables 13028 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables 13316 8 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,ipt_REJECT,ipt_TCPMSS,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
ipv6 226016 26
bridge 49404 0
tun 10336 0
ext2 59048 2
loop 15048 0
snd_via82xx 26008 0
gameport 14632 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 83104 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 2400 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 68676 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 8064 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 22560 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7820 1 snd_rawmidi
pcmcia 34140 0
firmware_class 9600 1 pcmcia
snd 47012 7 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
evdev 9088 0
via82cxxx_audio 24296 0
uart401 11172 1 via82cxxx_audio
sound 69768 2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
soundcore 9248 3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
ac97_codec 17196 1 via82cxxx_audio
parport_pc 32132 0
floppy 53156 0
parport 33256 1 parport_pc
pcspkr 3072 0
yenta_socket 24460 1
rsrc_nonstatic 11840 1 yenta_socket
rtc 12372 0
hisax_fcpcipnp 11392 0
hisax_isac 8116 1 hisax_fcpcipnp
hisax 413248 2 hisax_fcpcipnp,hisax_isac
psmouse 35016 0
serio_raw 6660 0
isdn 120608 1 hisax
slhc 6528 1 isdn
via_ircc 23188 0
irda 162588 1 via_ircc
crc_ccitt 2240 2 hisax,irda
i2c_viapro 8244 0
i2c_core 19680 1 i2c_viapro
shpchp 33024 0
pci_hotplug 28704 1 shpchp
via_agp 9664 1
agpgart 29896 1 via_agp
pcmcia_core 36852 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ext3 119240 10
jbd 52456 1 ext3
mbcache 8356 2 ext2,ext3
dm_mirror 19152 0
dm_snapshot 15552 0
dm_mod 50232 31 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_snapshot
raid1 21056 4
md_mod 70388 5 raid1
ide_generic 1408 0 [permanent]
ide_cd 36064 0
cdrom 32544 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 14848 5
generic 5476 0 [permanent]
sd_mod 19040 6
via82cxxx 8388 0 [permanent]
ide_core 110504 5 ide_generic,ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,via82cxxx
via_rhine 22664 0
mii 5344 1 via_rhine
ehci_hcd 28136 0
uhci_hcd 21164 0
sata_sil 11464 5
usbcore 112644 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
libata 89396 1 sata_sil
scsi_mod 124168 2 sd_mod,libata
thermal 13608 0
processor 28840 1 thermal
fan 4804 0
-- kernel-img.conf
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
postinst_hook = update-grub
postrm_hook = update-grub
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii busybox 1:1.1.3-4 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii cpio 2.6-17 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii klibc-utils 1.4.34-1 small statically-linked utilities
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 0.105-4 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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