Bug#673194: closed by maximilian attems <maks@stro.at> (Re: Bug#673194: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs silently creates non-bootable initramfs when run as non-root user)
On 21 May 2012 02:42, Touko Korpela <touko.korpela@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:30:24PM +0000, maximilian attems wrote:
>> have you tried to compare the content of both initramfs?
>
> I think closing of this bug was done too fast.
> Markus, you can compare initramfs contents using "lsinitramfs -l" command.
Thanks for the tip. I did compare them and there was no difference in
lsinitramfs printout. Then I proceeded to extract both and the only
difference seems to be in file owners. All the files in the archives
are owned by the user that ran mkinitramfs. I guess the kernel isn't
comfortable with init owned by non-root.
--
terveisin Markus
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