Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs

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Subject: Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs
From: pavel piankov <pavel.piankov@patentica.biz>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 05:41:56 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 562B8CAF-B046-4A3F-881C-81C0C7EE37F3@patentica.biz>
Reply-to: pavel piankov <pavel.piankov@patentica.biz>, 916670@bugs.debian.org
References: <5A905706-7291-4403-B5F8-3E921C0F8E1D@patentica.biz> <5A905706-7291-4403-B5F8-3E921C0F8E1D@patentica.biz>

> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-3-amd64

> cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

this is due

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0

line in /etc/mtab

remove it and the problem no more.

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- Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs
  - From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>