Package: udev
Version: 0.091-2
Severity: normal
Subject: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my boot device
Package: udev
Version: 0.091-2
Severity: normal
I've been trying to get the 'root=LABEL=label_name' functionality to
work for my system, since it's SCSI based and the presence or absence of
SCSI emulation devices sometimes changes the device name assigned. But
when I set it up, the initramfs environment reports and error and drops
me into the Busybox shell.
I've found that the problem appears to be related to vol_id failing to
find proper information for my root device, /dev/sda1. I've run the
commands 'e2label', '/lib/udev/vol_id', 'mount' and 'fdisk' with the
following results:
# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
....
# e2label /dev/sda1
/root
# fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4427.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36420075008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2433 4427 16024837+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2433 4427 16024806 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
# /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sda1
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=vfat
ID_FS_VERSION=FAT16
ID_FS_UUID=F010-C0E4
ID_FS_LABEL=
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=
Note that I've changed the root devices label from the default '/' to
'/root', because initially I thought the problem was related to not
being able to create a link in /dev/disk/by-label/, since the single
character '/' would leave a null value for ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE. This did
not help, due to the incorrect data from vol_id, but may still be an
issue.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-04-04 09:49 020_permissions.rules ->
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-04-03 10:07 025_libgphoto2.rules ->
../libgphoto2.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-05-05 09:11 025_libsane.rules ->
../libsane.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-04-03 10:08 025_logitechmouse.rules ->
../logitechmouse.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-05-09 08:25 050_hal-plugdev.rules ->
../hal.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2006-03-05 14:14 90-hal.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-04-04 09:49 cd-aliases.rules ->
../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-04-04 09:49 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-04-05 16:38 z20_persistent-input.rules ->
../persistent-input.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-04-04 09:49 z20_persistent.rules ->
../persistent.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 2006-05-09 11:08 z25_persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-05-09 11:08 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules
-> ../persistent-net-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-04-04 09:49 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-04-04 09:49 z55_hotplug.rules ->
../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-04-04 09:49 z70_hotplugd.rules ->
../hotplugd.rules
-- /sys/:
/sys/block/fd0/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda2/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda5/dev
/sys/block/sdb/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb1/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb2/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb5/dev
/sys/block/sdc/dev
/sys/block/sdc/sdc1/dev
/sys/block/sdd/dev
/sys/block/sdd/sdd1/dev
/sys/block/sde/dev
/sys/block/sde/sde1/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/printer/lp0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg2/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg3/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg4/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg5/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
-- Kernel configuration:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-14 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libvolume-id0 0.089-1 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii makedev 2.3.1-81 creates device files in /dev
ii sed 4.1.4-7 The GNU sed stream editor
udev recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
reportbug-udev-20060511-11525-hC_Bqa
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-04-04 09:49 020_permissions.rules ->
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-04-03 10:07 025_libgphoto2.rules ->
../libgphoto2.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-05-05 09:11 025_libsane.rules ->
../libsane.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-04-03 10:08 025_logitechmouse.rules ->
../logitechmouse.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-05-09 08:25 050_hal-plugdev.rules ->
../hal.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2006-03-05 14:14 90-hal.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-04-04 09:49 cd-aliases.rules ->
../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-04-04 09:49 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-04-05 16:38 z20_persistent-input.rules ->
../persistent-input.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-04-04 09:49 z20_persistent.rules ->
../persistent.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 2006-05-09 11:08 z25_persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-05-09 11:08 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules
-> ../persistent-net-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-04-04 09:49 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-04-04 09:49 z55_hotplug.rules ->
../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-04-04 09:49 z70_hotplugd.rules ->
../hotplugd.rules
-- /sys/:
/sys/block/fd0/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda2/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda5/dev
/sys/block/sdb/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb1/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb2/dev
/sys/block/sdb/sdb5/dev
/sys/block/sdc/dev
/sys/block/sdc/sdc1/dev
/sys/block/sdd/dev
/sys/block/sdd/sdd1/dev
/sys/block/sde/dev
/sys/block/sde/sde1/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/printer/lp0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg2/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg3/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg4/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg5/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
-- Kernel configuration:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-14 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libvolume-id0 0.089-1 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii makedev 2.3.1-81 creates device files in /dev
ii sed 4.1.4-7 The GNU sed stream editor
udev recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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