I have an strace output for the following: strace -f -o foo update-initramfs -u -v
It stopped at the following line as usual: Building cpio /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64.new initramfs The last few lines of the strace output: 12056 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 12056 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2855152, ...}) = 0 12056 mmap(NULL, 2855152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f46dea0e000 12056 close(3) = 0 12056 sync( I have tried this twice with the same screen output and strace output. I'm not sure what to do next. Thanks for any help. Mike