Hello Samuel, Many thanks for your detective work!
Samuel Thibault (2026/03/05 23:54 +0100): > Hello, > > Sebastian Humenda, le lun. 23 févr. 2026 07:15:24 +0100, a ecrit: > > Sébastien Hinderer schrieb am 22.02.2026, 19:19 +0100: > > >As you may know, it is possible to embed BRLTTY in initramfs, which is > > >generally helpful to catch problems happening early during system > > >startup. In particular this feature is the one that lets you know when > > >the time has come to enter the > > >passphrase to decrypt your encrypted hard drive. > > > > > >I am under the impression that embedding BRLTTY in recent initramfs > > >file systems breaks them to the pont that the whole boot becomes > > >impossible, the kernel trying to realise an impossible mount. > > I have tracked it down a bit, and it seems that it's brltty 6.9 which is > posing the problem: upgrading all packages but brltty from testing to > unstable and running update-initramfs -u keeps the system bootable. > Upgrading to brltty 6.8-5 and updating initramfs still keeps the system > bootable. It's only when I upgraded to 6.9-1 that I got the issue. > > Sébastien, can that match your finding? Well as far as I can remember I just upgraded everything at once as I do from time to time so I fear it would be hard for me tosay without re-downgrading and doing the same tests you did. Would that really help and be worth the effort? Seb.
