Bug#509373: live-initramfs: When I enable persistence it fails remounting /cow

[Mario Giammarco <mgiammarco@gmail.com>]

Package: live-initramfs
Version: 1.139.1-3
Severity: important

I have a compactflash based ide drive with two partitions (hdc1, hdc2). 
On hdc1 I have put a custom built debian live testing using squashfs. 
I have planned to use /dev/hdc2 (ext3) as persistent store.

I have tried two way: labelling hdc2 with live-rw or putting a live-rw file inside /dev/hdc2.
Either way the boot stops and appears a message that suggests me to file a bug to live-initramfs.

The error is:

Remounting /dev/hdc2 ro on /cow /home-rw-backing failed

I can see from the shell that /dev/hdc2 is already mounted rw,errors=continue,data=ordered on /cow AND on 
/home-rw-backing.

Thanks in advance for interest.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.6 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages live-initramfs depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.10.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  file                          4.26-2     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  initramfs-tools               0.92l      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  sudo                          1.6.9p17-1 Provide limited super user privile
ii  udev                          0.125-7    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  user-setup                    1.23       Set up initial user and password

Versions of packages live-initramfs recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  uuid-runtime                <none>       (no description available)
ii  wget                        1.11.4-2     retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages live-initramfs suggests:
pn  curlftpfs             <none>             (no description available)
pn  genext2fs             <none>             (no description available)
pn  httpfs2               <none>             (no description available)
pn  loop-aes-utils        <none>             (no description available)
pn  mtd-tools             <none>             (no description available)
ii  squashfs-tools        1:3.3-7+c0.sidux.1 Tool to create and append to squas

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