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Bug#281658: marked as done (initrd-tools: "cat: getroot: No such file or directory" due to /etc/raidtab parse error)

Your message dated Mon, 05 May 2008 10:23:24 +0200
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and subject line initrd-tools has been removed from Debian, closing #281658
has caused the Debian Bug report #281658,
regarding initrd-tools: "cat: getroot: No such file or directory" due to /etc/raidtab parse error
to be marked as done.

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Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.74
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd

> root@Astalo:/var/tmp/kalle/debian# LC_ALL=C dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 (2.6.8-4) ...
> cat: getroot: No such file or directory
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7

With strace -f, I found it that the postinst runs this command:

  mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7 /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-k7

I then ran that with "sh -x" and found that mkinitrd feeds
/etc/raidtab to awk and collects the raid-disk devices to a
"getroot" file:

		$1 == "device" {
			device = $2
		}
		$1 == "raid-disk" {
			print device >> "getroot"
		}

However, my /etc/raidtab has lines like this:

	device	/dev/hde1	raid-disk	0
	device	/dev/hdg1	raid-disk	1

That is, the "raid-disk" keyword is on the same line as "device".
The awk script then doesn't notice it, and fails to create the
"getroot" file, thus causing the error.  This syntax works just
fine with raidtools2, so I think mkinitrd should support it too.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-kon.astalo.1
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.5-1      GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-4      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.5.1-3    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  util-linux                    2.12-3     Miscellaneous system utilities

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.1.84.2+rm

The initrd-tools package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/393092 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
-- 
Lucas

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