Bug#440536: initramfs-tools: runaway modprobe loop: net-pf-1 and char-major-5-1

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

severity 440536 normal
tags 440536 moreinfo unreproducible
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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.
 
> 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?
 
> 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.
 
> 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 ;)
also this bugs pertains to module-init-tools,
as initramfs-tools directly invoces modprobe.

regards

-- 
maks