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Bug#549259: marked as done (upgrade-reports: boot after recent upgrade fails - initrd created without raid support)

Your message dated Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:16:52 +0100
with message-id <20100323221652.GK21299@stro.at>
and subject line Re: upgrade-reports: boot after recent upgrade fails - initrd created without raid support
has caused the Debian Bug report #549259,
regarding upgrade-reports: boot after recent upgrade fails - initrd created without raid support
to be marked as done.

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Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


After upgrading, the initrd created does not contain necessary raid
support to boot.  I was able to boot into single user mode using the
previous (.bak) initrd image.

I was able to compare the file list between the two initrd images and
found that md and several other raid related utilities, etc are no
longer in the initrd image following the upgrade.

As a secondary issue, apt now indicates hundreds of packages are no
longer needed and can be removed with autoremove (also a bad thing).

Unfortunately, the older initrd does not contain fully compatible
support for the upgraded system and the system fails to fully boot
to the gdm login screen with the backup initrd image.  Instead, the
system immeadiately hard resets.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-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

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--- Begin Message --- 
make sure you have installed on your box the following packages:
apt-get install mdadm lvm2

once you have, update your initramfs.
update-initramfs -u

what you are reporting is not an initramfs-tools bug,
if you deinstall relevant packages those hooks can't be packed
in initramfs.

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