Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.143.1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: bdr...@debian.org
In the light of the recent kmod/dracut-install issue, it came to light that initramfs-tools does not catch errors from dracut-install. Instead it just continues and produces an initramfs with no modules. As an example, with the currently broken kmod/dracut-install, on upgrades this happens: Setting up linux-image-6.10.4-amd64 (6.10.4-1) ... I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.10.4-amd64 I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.10.4-amd64 I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.10.4-amd64 I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.10.4-amd64 /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.10.4-amd64 W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: undefined symbol: kmod_module_get_weakdeps, version LIBKMOD_5 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: undefined symbol: kmod_module_get_weakdeps, version LIBKMOD_5 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: undefined symbol: kmod_module_get_weakdeps, version LIBKMOD_5 Setting up gcc-13 (13.3.0-5) ... ... Instead, it would be good if initramfs-tools would either abort, or at least detect the problem and refuse to overwrite an existing initrd.img with a now broken image. Thanks for considering! Chris
