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and subject line Bug#662891: fixed in kmod 6-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #662891,
regarding kmod: Debian kernels drop to busybox prompt with 6-1, but 5-2 OK.
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Package: kmod
Version: 6-1
Severity: important
I build custom kernels and use them primarily, but I always keep a
Debian kernel installed in case I do something stupid and my custom
kernel ends up unusable.
When kmod-6-1 became available on Sid, I installed it. There was no
reason to reboot at that time, but soon after I decided to test the
kernel update from linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 (upstream stable 3.2.7) to
linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 (upstream stable 3.2.9). At this point, I had
3 linux-image packages installed,
linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64
linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64
linux-image-3.2.9-3+dwlocal1
the latter being my latest custom kernel. I did a reboot to test
3.2.0-2, and was amazed to find that it would not complete the boot
process: I was dropped to the busybox prompt, and was able to scroll
back through the boot messages to find
ALERT: /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Assuming the problem was limited to this newest Debian kernel, I decided
to reboot and prove to myself that the older Debian kernel was still
working. It didn't.
Now in panic mode, I rebooted again to try my custom kernel. It was
fine. I concluded that something else had been installed that was
causing Debian kernels to fail, leaving my own custom kernels
untouched. After a quick look at /var/log/aptitude, I noticed the
recent upgrade of kmod, from 5-2 to 6-1.
I have had enough experience with Sid that I learned to keep old
versions of important packages around; I sometimes clear out
/var/cache/apt/archives, so I regularly copy packages to a backup
directory. So I immediately backed up the 5-2 versions of 'kmod',
'libkmod2', and 'module-init-tools', and then downgraded them all back
to 5-2. Afterwards, I also ran
update-initramfs -k all -u
and then tried rebooting. Both Debian kernels now worked, and my custom
kernel was also still working.
Now, I have some customizations in place regarding GRUB2. Particularly
I have uncommented a line in /etc/default/grub:
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to
Linux
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
I do this because my custom kernels do not use an initrd, and attempting
to use the UUID magic for the root device will prevent them from
booting. I suspected that this GRUB option might be causing the
problem, until I listed the contents of a version of an initrd built
with kmod-5-2 installed and one built using version 6-1. I have
attached those two listings (listings.tar.gz), but the diff alone is
most revealing:
$ diff list-initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64+kmod-5-2.txt
list-initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64+kmod-6-1.txt
60,68d59
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
< lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw
146,147d136
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/fs/nfs
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko
173,174d161
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/fs/lockd
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko
178,181d164
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/net/sunrpc
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/net/sunrpc/auth_gss
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko
204d186
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko
241d222
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko
256d236
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/pata_atiixp.ko
272d251
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko
278,279d256
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/libahci.ko
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/ata/pata_jmicron.ko
292d268
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
301d276
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko
309,310d283
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/core
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko
318,319d290
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko
329,332d299
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/hid/hid.ko
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-apple.ko
365d331
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.ko
451d416
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko
623d587
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko
689d652
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/firewire/firewire-ohci.ko
691d653
< lib/modules/3.2.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko
All of the changes reveal that modules were no longer being added to the
initrd with 6-1 installed. Having painstaking crafted my own '.config'
file for my custom kernel, I can tell you that most of these changes
involved options I have built into my custom kernel directly. In short,
these modules do not exist in /lib/modules for my custom kernel because
they are built-in.
Previous versions of 'kmod' did The Right Thing: they caused
'update-initramfs' to include the modules which would be needed by a
Debian kernel into its corresponding initrd. The current version is no
longer doing that. I no longer believe that my local modifications in
/etc/kernel/ and /etc/default/grub are responsible, since kmod-5-2 works
while kmod-6-1 fails with the same settings in /etc.
(No change in behavior was observed when upgrading initramfs-tools from
0.100 to 0.101: only changing the version of 'kmod' causes a change in
system behavior.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.9-3+dwlocal1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
listings.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: kmod
Source-Version: 6-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kmod, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
kmod_6-2.debian.tar.gz
to main/k/kmod/kmod_6-2.debian.tar.gz
kmod_6-2.dsc
to main/k/kmod/kmod_6-2.dsc
kmod_6-2_i386.deb
to main/k/kmod/kmod_6-2_i386.deb
libkmod-dev_6-2_i386.deb
to main/k/kmod/libkmod-dev_6-2_i386.deb
libkmod2-udeb_6-2_i386.udeb
to main/k/kmod/libkmod2-udeb_6-2_i386.udeb
libkmod2_6-2_i386.deb
to main/k/kmod/libkmod2_6-2_i386.deb
module-init-tools_6-2_all.deb
to main/k/kmod/module-init-tools_6-2_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> (supplier of updated kmod package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:21:00 +0100
Source: kmod
Binary: kmod module-init-tools libkmod2 libkmod-dev libkmod2-udeb
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 6-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Marco d'Itri <[email protected]>
Description:
kmod - tools for managing Linux kernel modules
libkmod-dev - libkmod development files
libkmod2 - libkmod shared library
libkmod2-udeb - libkmod shared library (udeb)
module-init-tools - transitional dummy package (module-init-tools to kmod)
Closes: 662822 662891 662984 663159
Changes:
kmod (6-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Applied a few upstream changesets to fix:
+ depmod correctly processing a kernel versions different from the
running one. (Closes: #662891)
+ modprobe -q still too much verbose. (Closes: #662822)
+ modprobe -r removing only the first argument. (Closes: #662984)
* Restored the code from the old module-init-tools package which deletes
obsolete conffiles. Abort upgrading from releases older than lenny.
(Closes: #663159)
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