Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Peter Hirdina wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > I then found out that the problem is absent when I create my initrd with
> > yaird instead of mkinitramfs. The yaird-generated initrd is also much
> > smaller than the one from mkinitramfs (939 KB vs 2.1 MB).
>
>
> I had the same problem. I checked the generated initrd file and noticed
> that the programs udevd moans about here are missing in the initrd file.
> I put this at the end of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev:
>
>   mkdir $DESTDIR/lib/udev/
>   cp /lib/udev/hotplug.functions $DESTDIR/lib/udev/
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/ata_id /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/cdrom_id /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/edd_id /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/firmware.agent /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/ide-devfs.sh /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/ide.agent /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/logger.agent /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/modalias_ieee1394 /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/modalias_serio /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/net.agent /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/path_id /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/raid-devfs.sh /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/scsi-devfs.sh /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/scsi-re-add /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/scsi_id /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/udev_run_devd /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/udev_run_hotplugd /lib/udev
>   copy_exec /lib/udev/udevsynthesize /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/usb_id /lib/udev
>   copy_exec /lib/udev/vio.agent /lib/udev
>   +copy_exec /lib/udev/vol_id /lib/udev
>
> Regenerated the initrd file, and the errors are gone.

Alright, so that's the proper way to solve it. I was in a hurry, therefore I
just renamed both /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs and /usr/sbin/mkinitrd and then I did a
dpkg-reconfigure on my linux-image package. This resulted in yaird being used,
but it is of course an extremely ugly hack. I guess I should finally learn the
correct usage of the various initrd generators.

Thanks a lot for the information.

Regards,
           Florian