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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: initramfs-tools: MODULES=dep fails when / is ubifs
- From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:00:39 +0000
- Message-id: <20100524090039.1624.22938.reportbug@moo>
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.94.4
Severity: normal
When / is on ubifs, if i set MODULES=dep in
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, i get the following error:
0 root@moo:~# update-initramfs -k all -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-kirkwood
readlink: missing operand
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
stdin: Illegal seek
mkinitramfs: for root missing /sys/block/ entry
mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most
mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-kirkwood
0 root@moo:~#
here's more information about this machine (it's a guruplug, running
directly from nand flash:
0 root@moo:~# cat /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=ubi0:root ubi.mtd=2 rootfstype=ubifs
0 root@moo:~# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=254824k,nr_inodes=63706,mode=755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
ubi0:root / ubifs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/cache/apt/archives tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/md0 /home ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
0 root@moo:~#
I can provide more info if you want it; please let me know.
Thanks for keeping initramfs-tools up-to-date!
--dkg
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=ubi0:root ubi.mtd=2 rootfstype=ubifs
-- /proc/filesystems
ext3
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
ext3 110692 1
jbd 37274 1 ext3
mbcache 4860 1 ext3
sd_mod 31168 2
crc_t10dif 1106 1 sd_mod
ipv6 252757 10
btmrvl_sdio 8140 0
btmrvl 10622 1 btmrvl_sdio
libertas_sdio 6387 0
bluetooth 47558 1 btmrvl
libertas 79561 1 libertas_sdio
mv_cesa 4620 0
rfkill 14240 1 bluetooth
lib80211 3680 1 libertas
usb_storage 34775 2
aes_generic 32820 1 mv_cesa
raid0 5835 1
md_mod 80194 2 raid0
mmc_block 7634 0
sata_mv 24181 0
ehci_hcd 35267 0
libata 137558 1 sata_mv
mvsdio 5294 0
mv643xx_eth 22510 0
usbcore 122040 3 usb_storage,ehci_hcd
scsi_mod 119084 3 sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
mmc_core 49668 4 btmrvl_sdio,libertas_sdio,mmc_block,mvsdio
nls_base 5367 1 usbcore
libphy 14808 1 mv643xx_eth
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=dep
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto
-- /sys/block
md0
mtdblock0
mtdblock1
mtdblock2
sda
sdb
sdc
sdd
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii cpio 2.11-4 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii findutils 4.4.2-1 utilities for finding files--find,
ii klibc-utils 1.5.18-1 small utilities built with klibc f
ii module-init-tools 3.12~pre2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 154-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.14.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed
initramfs-tools suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf changed:
MODULES=dep
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto
-- no debconf information
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Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.97
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initramfs-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
initramfs-tools_0.97.dsc
to main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.97.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.97.tar.gz
to main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.97.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.97_all.deb
to main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.97_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 582858@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> (supplier of updated initramfs-tools package)
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:28:04 +0200
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.97
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>
Description:
initramfs-tools - tools for generating an initramfs
Closes: 396388 537139 582858 583695 585991 585992
Changes:
initramfs-tools (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* [e65ee48] Produce an error when root cannot be determined with
MODULES=dep
* [bb66fc2] hook-functions/init/scripts/local: add support for ubifs.
(Closes: #582858) - thanks to Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
.
[ Ferenc Wagner ]
* [1d66ae1] scripts/nfs: cleanup retry logic
.
[ Colin Watson ]
* [3054e3e] initramfs-tools: work around 'find -printf %Y' bug
.
[ maximilian attems ]
* [a8a5ce4] script: Add update-initramfs.conf to bug report
* [cc6077a] update-initramfs: Fix another unbound variable (Closes:
#583695)
* [b1f74e6] get_fstype: reference blkid in comment - thanks to
Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
* [eb93a7e] pre_mountroot(): reduce timeout to 30 seconds
* [38563fe] scripts/functions: On panic change to tty1 if chvt around
- thanks to Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
* [2031379] mkinitramfs: No point in hardcoding busybox path
* [68c87cd] mkinitramfs: check syntax of boot and hook scripts
* [ae02e4b] scripts/functions: beautify a bit reduce_satisfied()
* [22d996c] maintainer doc: use git commands without the dash
* [6147641] nfsmount: more small cleanups
* [e967b03] mkinitramfs, lsinitramfs: Better error message for
non-GNU getopt
* Add lsinitramfs (to list content of an initramfs image) ([a39db63]
[969f8fd] [fafede5] [2f3eb88])
.
[ Michael Prokop ]
* [2a8c990] hook-functions/mkinitramfs/update-initramfs: consequently
output error messages to stderr
* [04b8619] init: display warning message if devtmpfs could not be
mounted. - thanks to Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
* [60afd2a] code cleanup: drop trailing whitespaces.
* [ab28c77] code cleanup: consequently replace spaces in indentions
with tabs to unify coding stile
* [3a02c6f] code cleanup: consequently use "W:" for warnings.
* [b1fff5e] add bash-completion for update-initramfs (Closes: #537139)
- thanks to Stéphane Jourdois <stephane@jourdois.fr>
* [5697c3b] hook-functions: replace awk calls with sed in
dep_add_modules() (Closes: #585991) - thanks to Thorsten Glaser
<tg@mirbsd.de>
* [7afab22] debian/script: append /proc/mdstat (iff present) to
bugreports
* [5b565be] scripts/functions: allow hooks to abort build (Closes:
#396388)
* [528ba78] hook-functions: do not install ubi module by default via
auto_add_modules()
* [ecb8416] lsinitramfs: be more defensive against cmdline options
* [2ff4ba2] scripts/functions: fix usage of test for script execution
* [74f71c9] scripts/functions: fix another sh -n usage and fix typo
* [91f5947] hook-functions: install virtio_pci module if
/sys/bus/virtio is present and using modules=dep (Closes: #585992) -
thanks to Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org>
* [d25f610] slightly improve manpage lsinitramfs.8
* Provide maintainer-notes.html, being "Maintainer documentation for
initramfs-tools" ([7fc1ee5] [afafea4] [e506ee7] [d53a839] [6af23c2])
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