Bug#659948: [initramfs-tools] Fails to upgrade (Sid)

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Wednesday 15 February 2012 11:40:02 Michael Prokop wrote:
> * David Baron [Wed Feb 15, 2012 at 10:49:53AM +0200]:
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > On attempted upgrade
> 
> From which initramfs-tools version are you upgrading?
Previous Sid version.

> 
> > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
> > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1-686-pae
> > /rootfs: No such file or directory
> > mkinitramfs: for root /rootfs missing /rootfs /sys/block/ entry
> > mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most
> > mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug
> > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1-686-pae with 1.
> > 
> > dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
> >  1
> > 
> > configured to not write apport reports
> > 
> >                                       Errors were encountered while
> > 
> > processing:
> >  initramfs-tools
> 
> Did you recently switch to the usage of
> "root=UUID=df24bea0-5520-4281-b053-021bd5a96628" or did you use the
> very same kernel command line also with the older version of
> initramfs-tools?
No change here.

> 
> > -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
> > MODULES=dep
> 
> Same question for MODULES=dep (and as noted in the error message
> switching to MODULES=most will work around your issue).
This makes things too big for lilo (or at least did so previously)


> Please also provide output of 'mount' of your system.
:~$ mount
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=755,size=10%,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880,mode=1777,size=5242880,mode=1777)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,size=20%,mode=1777,size=20%,mode=1777)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=512m,size=20%,mode=1777)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620,gid=5,mode=620)
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,size=512m)
/dev/mapper/DB--LVM-LV_OPT on /opt type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/DB--LVM-LV_USR on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/DB--LVM-LV_VAR on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/DB--LVM-LV_HOME on /home type ext3 (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/david/hda1-windows on /mnt/hda1 type squashfs (ro)
/home/david/hda6-windows on /mnt/hda6 type squashfs (ro)

Does show a rootfs mount on /