Bug#595094: linux-base: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume^old causes trouble

[Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>]

Package: linux-base
Version: 2.6.33-1~experimental.4
Severity: normal

Hello

Since upgrading to 2.6.32-5-amd64 my system does not boot every time. It then
hangs after identifying all SATA discs in script called "local-premount" with a
message saying that it cannot find the resume drive /dev/sda2 and I should
press enter.
As my USB keyboard is not working at this point I usually do a hard reset and
then most of the time the boot continues.

I was wondering where the /dev/sda2 was coming from as my GRUB and fstab
contain UUID resp. /dev/disk/by-name labels. The only occurence which grep
found was a /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume^old with a timestamp from
2008-01-14 next to a file "resume" which contains the correct UUID.

As I would never use a ^ character in a filename I looked in /var/lib/dpkg/info
and found linux-base.postinst which does so an has an interesting comment next
to it:

                    {packages => 'initramfs-tools',
                     path => '/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume',
                     list => \&initramfs_resume_list,
                     update => \&initramfs_resume_update,
                     # udev will source all files in this directory,
                     # with few exceptions.  Such as including a '^'.
                     suffix => '^old'},

I could not find a corresponding filter in the udev sources so I would assume
that this exception is no longer given.

Can you check this and if true add a line to the postinst file that removes all
present resume^old files? They might cause trouble to others as well.

bye,

-christian-



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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.35     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libapt-pkg-perl               0.1.24+b1  Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libuuid-perl                  0.02-4     Perl extension for using UUID inte

linux-base recommends no packages.

linux-base suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  linux-base/disk-id-manual:
  linux-base/disk-id-convert-plan-no-relabel: true
* linux-base/disk-id-convert-plan: true
* linux-base/disk-id-convert-auto: true