Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.77b Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
*** Please type your report below this line *** I use Debian testing. The latest "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" installed version 0.77b. After that, the system would not boot again: -=-=-= [...] ACPI wakeup devices PCI0 UAR1 USB1 USB2 USB3 [...] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=1) VFS: cannot open root device "305" or unknown-block(3,5) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,5) -=-=-= A web search ran from a live CD led me think this was because "lilo" had failed to be run after the update. The following sequence, inspired from this URL: http://www.developpez.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-40078.html fixed it for me (commands run as root in a terminal on the live CD --- YMMV as hda/hda5 depend on every system): -=-=-= mkdir -p /mnt/hda/proc /mnt/hda/dev/shm /mnt/hda/sys mount -t proc proc /mnt/hda/proc mount -t sysfs sysfs /mnt/hda/sys #si c'est un kernel 2.6.x mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/hda/dev mount -f -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/hda/dev/shm mount -f -t devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 devpts /mnt/hda/dev/pts mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda chroot /mnt/hda -=-=-= Then I could run: -=-=-= Knoppix:/# lilo -=-=-= (Actually I had to run "lilo -P ignore", as suggested by lilo, because of a problem, but I think this is unrelated. I reran "lilo" without problems or warnings once I had correctly booted up the usual system). Suggestion: (I will now try to switch to GRUB but) DO include this lilo check in your non-regression tests! lilo is normally installed on my system: -=-=-= # dpkg -l lilo Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===========================-===========================-====================================================================== ii lilo 22.6.1-7.1 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others -=-=-= -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux-2.6.16 ro root=305 -- /proc/filesystems 13: cramfs 17: ext3 -- lsmod Module Size Used by ipt_MASQUERADE 3200 1 xt_tcpudp 3072 1 iptable_filter 2816 0 ip_nat_ftp 3072 0 ip_conntrack_ftp 7324 1 ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat 7684 1 ip_nat 16116 3 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat ip_tables 11352 2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat ip_conntrack 48952 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_ftp,ip_conntrack_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_nat nfnetlink 6168 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack x_tables 11396 4 ipt_MASQUERADE,xt_tcpudp,iptable_nat,ip_tables radeon 96032 1 drm 62228 2 radeon ipv6 218912 8 ppdev 8324 0 lp 10496 0 dm_mod 48180 0 snd_emu10k1_synth 6400 0 snd_emux_synth 30528 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 6272 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 5760 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_dummy 3588 0 snd_seq_oss 27812 0 snd_seq_midi 8096 0 snd_seq_midi_event 6592 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 43852 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_emu10k1 99940 1 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi 22496 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec 82848 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_bus 2112 1 snd_ac97_codec i2c_viapro 7956 0 snd_pcm_oss 44128 0 snd_mixer_oss 15744 1 snd_pcm_oss i2c_core 19536 1 i2c_viapro mousedev 10496 1 tsdev 7296 0 snd_pcm 74504 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_device 8332 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi via_ircc 23252 0 snd_timer 20420 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9864 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 4352 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 irda 161596 1 via_ircc snd_hwdep 8580 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd 46400 13 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep crc_ccitt 2048 1 irda shpchp 39424 0 pci_hotplug 24308 1 shpchp emu10k1_gp 3520 0 evdev 8832 0 psmouse 34504 0 analog 9888 0 serio_raw 6532 0 gameport 13576 3 emu10k1_gp,analog parport_pc 31728 1 parport 32008 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc rtc 11444 0 pcspkr 3012 0 via_agp 9408 1 agpgart 29296 2 drm,via_agp floppy 55916 0 soundcore 8736 1 snd ext3 117064 8 jbd 47316 1 ext3 mbcache 7684 1 ext3 ide_generic 1216 0 [permanent] ide_cd 35680 0 cdrom 32240 1 ide_cd ide_disk 14720 10 uhci_hcd 26896 0 tulip 46048 0 ehci_hcd 26952 0 usbcore 111136 3 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd via82cxxx 8068 0 [permanent] generic 4228 0 [permanent] ide_core 111536 5 ide_generic,ide_cd,ide_disk,via82cxxx,generic thermal 13064 0 processor 21760 1 thermal fan 4548 0 -- 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 2.6.16-2-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii busybox 1:1.1.3-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed ii cpio 2.6-17 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii klibc-utils 1.4.19-2 small statically-linked utilities ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.093-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo initramfs-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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