Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:40:58 -0500 Blake Miner <compwiz737@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Dear Maintainer, > > The operating system will boot up fine in most cases, but randomly, the kernel will panic on boot-up and display > "Initramfs unpacking failed: uncompression error" Is your processor overclocked? Have you run a RAM test (e.g.. memtest86+)? > I am running this kernel (I know that it's not quite up-to-date): > 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 (2015-11-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux Please re-test with the current kernel version. > I believe that this problem is caused by a bug already fixed upstream by the Linux Kernel team but not yet > fixed in the Debian 3.16 kernel. > > Please check out commit 664653016626d15d3e898aabd0785f1b785f6400 > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/664653016626d15d3e898aabd0785f1b785f6400 > > An excerpt of the commit message is as follows: > > --- > x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd" [...] We don't build with kaslr, so this doesn't explain the problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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