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Bug#481196: marked as done (initramfs-tools: please document the behavior of 'break' when 'panic' is passed along with)

Your message dated Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:47:02 +0000
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and subject line Bug#481196: fixed in initramfs-tools 0.92c
has caused the Debian Bug report #481196,
regarding initramfs-tools: please document the behavior of 'break' when 'panic' is passed along with
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.92a
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hello,

this bug originates after bug #478268 [1].

On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:23:00 +0200, David Härdeman wrote:
> initramfs will behave differently if the "panic" kernel option is set
> (initramfs will not spawn any shells in that case but reboot instead).

I couldn't understand why the "break" kernel option didn't work while I
was trying to debug a problem in cryptsetup [2] and indeed my kernel
cmdline contains a "panic=10" option as well.  Removing the latter
allows "break" to work.

I've found the initramfs-tools.8 documentation a bit misleading, thus I
propose the following patch (if I understand correctly David's words):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/initramfs-tools.8 b/initramfs-tools.8
index 83884b7..fe64add 100644
--- a/initramfs-tools.8
+++ b/initramfs-tools.8
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ Use for example "debug=vc".
 spawns a shell in the initramfs image at chosen run-time
 (top, modules, premount, mount, bottom, init).
 The default is premount without any arg.
+Please pay attention that when both "panic" and "break" are present,
+initramfs will not spawn any shells but reboot instead.
 
 
 .SH HOOK SCRIPTS
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=478268#27
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=478268#15

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  cpio                          2.9-13     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  findutils                     4.4.0-2    utilities for finding files--find,
ii  klibc-utils                   1.5.9-2    small utilities built with klibc f
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                          0.114-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii  busybox                       1:1.9.2-3  Tiny utilities for small and embed

-- no debconf information

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Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.92c

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initramfs-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

initramfs-tools_0.92c.dsc
  to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.92c.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.92c.tar.gz
  to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.92c.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.92c_all.deb
  to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.92c_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 481196@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> (supplier of updated initramfs-tools package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:31:06 +0200
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.92c
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>
Description: 
 initramfs-tools - tools for generating an initramfs
Closes: 475430 481196 483431
Changes: 
 initramfs-tools (0.92c) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ maximilian attems ]
   * doc: fix date string of manual pages.
   * MODULES=most add mmc host and card drivers for OLPC. (closes: #483431)
   * update-initramfs.conf.5: document backup_initramfs variable.
     (closes: #475430)
   * initramfs-tools.8: Document "break" and "panic" behaviour.
     (closes: #481196)
   * wait_for_udev(): simplify, no need for logging.
 .
   [ martin f. krafft ]
   * Wait for udevsettle after -top scripts ran
   * init: Remove extra ellipses
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