Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.99
Severity: grave
As stated in this thread
http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2011/08/msg00001.html, Debian
"Wheezy" Testing cannot be booted at all on IA-64 (current
linux-image-3.0.0-1-mckinley in Testing depends on initramfs-tools
0.99, so initramfs-tools cannot be downgraded to previously working
0.98.8). Hence severity set to grave. Last message displayed on
console is:
[ 17.146492] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024kB freed
Loading, please wait...
And then, nothing.
Regression has been bisected to commit
8f8299d9ba017d2a5af853a52be37ee50c89fac2 (mkinitramfs: copy over on
build instead of using symlink tree) from maximilian attems,
2011-02-21 (initramfs-tools v0.99 development cycle).
Comparison of last good and first bad generated initrd.img ramdisks show that:
- good one has bin/busybox and bin/sh, bin/sh being a soft link on
bin/busybox and size of bin/busybox matching size of system
/bin/busybox (1320720 bytes)
- bad one has no bin/busybox, only bin/sh (executable, not a link) but
size (199144 bytes) doesn't match size of system /bin/busybox (1320720
bytes). Indeed, analyzing hook-functions and hooks/busybox source
code, it's my understanding that bin/sh should be a copy of system
/bin/busybox and thus should have the same size, right? I don't know
where this 199144 bytes executable comes from.
Applying patch proposed in bug #628374 (initramfs-tools: Recent
changes to hooks break busybox in initrd) to revert changes on busybox
hook doesn't help.
Simply reverting commit 8f8299d9ba017d2a5af853a52be37ee50c89fac2 from
initramfs-tools v0.99 source code doesn't help either as resulting
initramfs-tools binaries generate initrd.img failing to boot system
with kernel panic, probably because of
post-8f8299d9ba017d2a5af853a52be37ee50c89fac2 commits.
The problem is still present in current initramfs-tools git repository.
-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18M Aug 16 21:45 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-mckinley
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=scsi1:/EFI/debian/vmlinuz.old root=UUID=59bf61ca-bdc4-4819-b6c7-5e6f8
057e8be ro
-- resume
RESUME=UUID=d550ead1-5755-40a6-af3a-07725fe4e688
-- /proc/filesystems
ext4
fuseblk
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
fuse 148263 1
nfsd 580932 2
nfs 667482 0
lockd 148031 2 nfsd,nfs
fscache 78844 1 nfs
auth_rpcgss 80673 2 nfsd,nfs
nfs_acl 5191 2 nfsd,nfs
sunrpc 401530 6 nfsd,nfs,lockd,auth_rpcgss,nfs_acl
ipv6 667084 36
loop 30718 0
radeon 2088892 2
snd_fm801 35165 2
snd_ac97_codec 184761 1 snd_fm801
ac97_bus 1838 1 snd_ac97_codec
ttm 117516 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 53852 1 radeon
snd_pcm 147663 2 snd_fm801,snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc 11557 1 snd_pcm
snd_tea575x_tuner 8774 1 snd_fm801
videodev 160214 1 snd_tea575x_tuner
media 22901 1 videodev
drm 318125 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 10968 1 radeon
fm801_gp 4776 0
gameport 15903 2 fm801_gp
i2c_core 35751 5 radeon,drm_kms_helper,videodev,drm,i2c_algo_bit
power_supply 16323 1 radeon
evdev 20535 4
snd_opl3_lib 19238 1 snd_fm801
snd_timer 42224 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 13629 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 13763 1 snd_fm801
snd_rawmidi 40192 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 10749 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 102026 13 snd_fm801,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,s
nd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10343 1 snd
ext4 554604 1
mbcache 12842 1 ext4
jbd2 118997 1 ext4
crc16 1479 1 ext4
sd_mod 75886 3
crc_t10dif 1420 1 sd_mod
usbhid 61155 0
hid 134780 1 usbhid
sg 47353 0
sr_mod 32745 0
cdrom 73444 1 sr_mod
ata_generic 5671 0
ohci_hcd 53106 0
pata_cmd64x 10096 0
libata 349825 2 ata_generic,pata_cmd64x
mptspi 27375 2
mptscsih 38872 1 mptspi
ehci_hcd 91574 0
mptbase 116134 2 mptspi,mptscsih
scsi_transport_spi 44772 1 mptspi
usbcore 284414 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
scsi_mod 252243 7 sd_mod,sg,sr_mod,libata,mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_tra
nsport_spi
tg3 299933 0
e100 64313 0
mii 8419 1 e100
libphy 36137 1 tg3
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
do_bootloader = yes
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
BOOT=local
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no
-- mkinitramfs hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/:
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks:
busybox
dmsetup
keymap
klibc
ntfs_3g
thermal
udev
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-mckinley (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii cpio 2.11-7 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii findutils 4.4.2-1+b1 utilities for finding files--find,
ii klibc-utils 1.5.24-1 small utilities built with klibc f
ii module-init-tools 3.16-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 172-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.18.5-1 Tiny utilities for small and embed
Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:1.3-1 programmable completion for the ba
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