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Bug#353952: marked as done (initrd-tools: LVM2-on-root fails w/o devfs)

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 #353952
has caused the Debian Bug report #353952,
regarding initrd-tools: LVM2-on-root fails w/o devfs
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.81.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When trying to boot off an initrd created for a LVM2 root with a
devfs-less kernel, the LVM tools attempt and fail to create device nodes
under /dev/mapper (since cramfs is read-only).

I know this has been declared "fixed" by telling everybody to move on to
initramfs-tools (I must say I find it a dubious practice to close bugs
that way), but this is of little solace to those of us running sarge.

So, I'm attaching a quick and dirty patch to mkinitrd that solves this
issue.  It's ugly and produces some warnings on boot, but it works.  (It
shouldn't break thinks for devfs-enabled kernels either, but I haven't
tested that assumption.)  Simply apply the patch, run dpkg-divert, and
you're all set.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-3
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.93-5     The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.6-10     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-6      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.5.3-2    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  util-linux                    2.12r-6    Miscellaneous system utilities

initrd-tools recommends no packages.

-- debconf-show failed

--- mkinitrd.distrib	2005-05-26 19:44:00.000000000 -0400
+++ mkinitrd	2006-02-21 18:04:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -305,7 +305,9 @@
 				cat /var/lvm.conf > /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
 			fi
 			mount -nt devfs devfs /dev
+			mount -nt tmpfs tmpfs /dev/mapper
 			vgchange -a y ${vg}
+			umount /dev/mapper
 			umount /dev
 			umount -n /var
 			umount -n /etc/lvm
@@ -1277,7 +1279,7 @@
 	esac
 
 	cd initrd
-	mkdir -p dev2 devfs etc keyscripts mnt proc scripts sys tmp var
+	mkdir -p dev/mapper dev2 devfs etc keyscripts mnt proc scripts sys tmp var
 
 	> etc/mtab

--- 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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