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Bug#440536: marked as done (initramfs-tools: runaway modprobe loop: net-pf-1 and char-major-5-1)

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and subject line Bug#440536: initramfs-tools: runaway modprobe loop: net-pf-1 and char-major-5-1
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.85h
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole 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.

Upgrading from initrd-tools to initramfs-tools results in the error message:

"runaway modprobe loop"

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.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=901 hdc=ide-cd

-- /proc/filesystems
	ext3
	ext2
	cramfs
	iso9660
	romfs
	udf
	xfs
	vfat

-- lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia               4549332  16 
dv1394                 19020  0 
video1394              17996  0 
raw1394                25836  0 
lirc_serial            12800  0 
bttv                  160820  0 
video_buf              20868  1 bttv
btcx_risc               5128  1 bttv
ir_common               9732  1 bttv
lirc_i2c                9348  2 
lirc_dev               13940  2 lirc_serial,lirc_i2c
snd_usb_audio          68800  0 
snd_usb_lib            14976  1 snd_usb_audio
pwc                    86912  0 
compat_ioctl32          1792  2 bttv,pwc
ip_nat_irc              2944  0 
ip_conntrack_irc        7024  1 ip_nat_irc
ip_nat_ftp              3584  0 
ip_conntrack_ftp        7536  1 ip_nat_ftp
snd_emu10k1_synth       7296  0 
snd_emux_synth         31744  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         7296  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       6272  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1            99108  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
msp3400                28448  0 
saa7127                11156  0 
saa7115                13456  0 
tda9887                15376  0 
tuner                  45612  0 
v4l2_common             8064  4 bttv,pwc,msp3400,tuner
snd_seq_dummy           4100  0 
snd_seq_oss            29568  0 
snd_seq_midi            8736  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7424  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                47440  9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi            23456  4 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
snd_intel8x0           29084  0 
snd_ac97_codec         81068  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2688  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            44704  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16384  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                74756  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device          8972  8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
ivtv                  166544  1 
snd_util_mem            4864  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
firmware_class         10240  2 bttv,ivtv
snd_timer              22020  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep               9348  3 snd_usb_audio,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
i2c_algo_bit            8712  2 bttv,ivtv
snd                    48228  15 snd_usb_audio,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
v4l1_compat            12676  1 ivtv
tveeprom               14224  2 bttv,ivtv
ehci_hcd               36488  0 
i2c_core               20224  11 nvidia,bttv,lirc_i2c,msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,tda9887,tuner,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom
soundcore               9696  1 snd
e1000                  93876  0 
ohci1394               30768  2 dv1394,video1394
snd_page_alloc         10376  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
uhci_hcd               27532  0 
ieee1394              286904  4 dv1394,video1394,raw1394,ohci1394
videodev                9344  3 bttv,pwc,ivtv
bcm5700               132908  0 
ide_cd                 36128  0 
usbcore               119172  6 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,pwc,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ide_scsi               16388  0 
sg                     28572  0 
sr_mod                 14884  0 
sd_mod                 14592  19 
raid5                  21888  0 
xor                    14728  1 raid5
raid1                  19712  3 
aic79xx               198104  12 
scsi_transport_spi     21376  1 aic79xx
vfat                   12672  0 
fat                    47132  1 vfat

-- kernel-img.conf
# Kernel Image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = No


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007, Paul Check wrote:

> On Monday 03 September 2007 19:04, Paul wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Sure enough, upgrading to the latest kernel for the stable version (2.6.18) 
> did remove this problem. I told you I'd try, and voila!

the error usually shows when things are build as module,
which shouldn't as unix sockets..

anyway thanks for feedback, closing
 

-- 
maks

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