Re: [Diagnostic Summary] Re: Strange message during boot

[bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, The Wanderer wrote:

> On 2018-01-11 at 12:35, bw wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On stretch local_block is a function in a script named local, maybe using 
> > a stretch tool on jessie has things confused?  or the initramfs-tools pkg 
> > is hosed on the bad system.  Sounds complicated, one version of grub but 
> > separate boot partitions always gets me confused too.
> > 
> > grep local_block /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local
> > local_block()
> >                         local_block "${dev_id}"
> 
> That's local_block; this appears to be local-block.
> 
> On my system (stable+testing, though with sysvinit rather than systemd):
> 
> $ dlocate scripts/local-block
> mdadm: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block
> mdadm: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/mdadm
> lvm2: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block
> lvm2: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/lvm2
> 

Okay, that is weird.  I had no idea that a sysV system installed 
different scripts, or why that is the case.

# find / -name local-block*
#
ls -l /sbin/init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:28 /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd