Bug#440536: initramfs-tools: runaway modprobe loop: net-pf-1 and char-major-5-1
> severity 440536 normal
> tags 440536 moreinfo unreproducible
> stop
>
> On Sun, 02 Sep 2007, Paul Check wrote:
>
>> Package: initramfs-tools
>> Version: 0.85h
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> highly overrated, downgrading serverrity.
How is it overrated to say critical when it breaks a system? Perhaps it
isn't a bug at all, and it's my own error in terms of setup. But, if it is
a bug, it's rather critical that you can no longer boot a system.
>> Running kernel 2.6.16 on stable, root/boot on raid 1 on scsi devices,
>> rest of system is lvm on raid 1 on same scsi devices.
>
> urrgs why are you using such an old kernel?
So, are you saying that this behavior will go away when I upgrade? Somehow
I doubt that, but I will try. I was waiting to upgrade the kernel when I
moved from stable to unstable, and I was waiting to do the latter change
after I get mkinitramfs working.
>> Upgrading from initrd-tools to initramfs-tools results in the error
>> message:
>>
>> "runaway modprobe loop"
>
> can you post more context no idea where this should happen.
More context? Ok, I re-boot my computer. Some crytographic routines print
messages and then the runaway modprobe loop messages print. It's very,
very early in the boot process. Is there any more information I can
provide wrt the context? If there is anything you'd like me to transcribe
the next time I do this break, then I will do so.
>
>> on boot, and then hangs (hence critical). The looping messages are
>> modprobe for:
>>
>> net-pf-1
>> char-major-5-1
>>
>> I used modules=list and put the same list of modules in the
>> initramfs config file as are in my initrd config file.
>>
>> When I unpack the cpio archive I see that initramfs added the module
>> "unix" to the list, which of course is alised to net-pf-1. Also,
>> I have no idea what char-major-5-1 is.
>
> check the modprobe alias files ;)
Ummm..I did, and I don't see it referenced anywhere. Should it be? Perhaps
that is my problem?? Ok...
> also this bugs pertains to module-init-tools,
> as initramfs-tools directly invoces modprobe.
[cont'd]...if that is the case then I agree with the comment just above!
However, a google search for "char-major-5-1" results in only 4 hits, and
I couldn't see what it referenced there.
It seems a little early to definitively say this is a problem with
module-init-tools, since initrd-tools has no problem but initramfs-tools
does.
--Paul
Thanks, Paul
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