Bug#535270: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: Waiting for root file system
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64
Version: 2.6.30-1
Severity: normal
Hi.
The consequence of this problem seems similar to the report #532861.
My current kernel (2.6.26-1) behaves fine, while following an upgrade,
the newly installed is stuck just after printing "Waiting for root [...]".
The root file system was installed (using the Debian netinst from about
two years ago) on reiserfs on LVM on RAID1.
[To add to the annoyance, the upgrade process updated some X library,
and, although X starts up, no other graphical program does, so my
machine is now mainly unusable even with this working kernel.]
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre5-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn linux-doc-2.6.30 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/initrd-2.6.30-1-amd64:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.30-1-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.30-1-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.30-1-amd64: false
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.30-1-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.30-1-amd64: false
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.30-1-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.30-1-amd64:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.30-1-amd64: true
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