Bug#545064: initramfs-tools: "update-initramfs" fails to include "/lib/libc.so.6" and "/lib/libm.so"

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Christoph Franzen wrote:
> 
> Whenever a new RAM disk is created (for instance with "update-initramfs -u -k
> all"), the above mentioned "libc" files are missing in the image. If I use the package
> "busybox", the kernel will panic because "libm.so" is not found, if I use
> "busybox-static", it fails to find "libc.so.6" at an even earlier stage. The
> computer has been running Etch with backports, and has been upgraded to Lenny
> after Lenny became "stable". The two files are actually not included in the
> generated RAM disks, while those RAM disks created with earlier versions of
> "initramfs-tools" do contain them, and they work as expected if I replace any failing new one
> with such an old one.
> 

no evidence was brought forward, post the output of
sh -x mkinitramfs -o /dev/null