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Bug#812120: update-initramfs fails if busybox is not installed



On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 22:21 +0300, Evgeny Kapun wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools-core
> Version: 0.121
> 
> If I try to run update-initramfs while busybox is not installed, I get an error message:
> 
>      E: busybox is required but not installed
>      E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/busybox failed with return 1.
> 
> This happens irrespective of the BUSYBOX setting in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf.

You have another package installed (maybe cryptsetup) that requires
busybox to work in the initramfs.

Try this:

    grep -r BUSYBOX /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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