Bug#771379: linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.3-amd64: backport kernels not booting when root file system is on an LVM volume

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 23:45:34 +0100, lee wrote:
>
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 3.16.5-1~bpo70+1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> + do an installation that has the root file system on an LVM volume
>>
>> + once finished, install the backports kernel
>>     this removes initramfs-tools because the backports kernel uses
>>     dracut
>>
> It shouldn't.  You need to install initramfs-tools from backports
> though.


Aptitude shows:


i A  --\ dracut
  Description: A new initramfs infrastructure
  [...]
  --- Depends (6)
  --- Suggests (1)
  --- Recommends (5)
  --\ Conflicts (1)
    --- initramfs-tools
  --- Package names provided by dracut (1)
  --- Packages which depend on dracut (8)
  --\ Versions of dracut (1)
i A  020-2


So installing the backports kernel removes initramfs-tools because it
requires dracut.  Shouldn't aptitude pull in the backports version of
initramfs-tools?  (I wasn't aware that there is one ....)

And why should initramfs-tools be installed when dracut is used instead?

Initramfs-tools is not installed on the VMs that run the backports kernel.


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