Bug#668616: initramfs-tools: I'm seeing: mkinitramfs: for root /rootfs missing /rootfs /sys/block/ entry

[John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.103
Severity: normal


I too have run into this issue. Currently I have initramfs-tools
uninstalled (because it failed) and I am not entirlely sure how to
un-wedge this problem. I have read #659948, but it doesn't sound
like linking rootfs -> / is the answer either.

Does someone have a good set of instructions to allow the package
to finish installing?


Below is the install failure:

Unpacking initramfs-tools (from .../initramfs-tools_0.103_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.103) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for dracut ...
/boot/dracut.img-3.2.0-2-amd64 does not exist. Cannot update.
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64
/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-3.2.0-2-amd64 with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
Log ended: 2012-06-02  20:54:15


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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  klibc-utils                   2.0-2      small utilities built with klibc f
ii  module-init-tools             3.12-2     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                          164-3      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii  busybox                       1:1.17.1-8 Tiny utilities for small and embed

Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii  bash-completion               1:1.2-3    programmable completion for the ba