On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I multi-boot several varieties of Debian.
> When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of:
> > > Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
>
> It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system.
> Would this be logged somewhere?
> Where?
>
> Specifics:
> sda1 - Always has the latest version of Debian, currently 9.1 .
> For housekeeping reasons it has the only copy of Grub
> on my machine.
> sda8 - The problem install is Debian 8. It had been my primary work
> install until I trashed some data files. It has been kept to
> reconstruct those files as I have time.
> sda9 - Current work install of Debian 9.1
>
> Suggested diagnostics yielded:
>
> > root@stretch-2nd:~# ls -l /sbin/init
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 4 2017 /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd
> > root@stretch-2nd:~#
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list indicates the install had been done with:
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux stretch-DI-rc3 _Stretch_ - Official Snapshot i386
> NETINST Binary-1 20170409-00:50]/ stretch main
>
> >
> > root@stretch-2nd:~# dlocate /sbin/init
> > bash: dlocate: command not found
> > root@stretch-2nd:~#
> >
> > journalctl -xb > jan11test
> The string of interest not present.
>
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ does not exist
> /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts has 10 empty folders
>
Doesn't sound right.
ls -l /usr/share/initramfs-tools/
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 2017 conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 19 2017 conf-hooks.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19249 Mar 6 2017 hook-functions
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 07:57 hooks
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5960 Apr 23 2017 init
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 357 Mar 1 2015 modules
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 2017 modules.d
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Nov 10 07:57 scripts
ls -l /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9394 Mar 6 2017 functions
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 07:57 init-bottom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 07:57 init-premount
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 05:04 init-top
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5607 Apr 8 2017 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 19 2017 local-bottom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 19 2017 local-premount
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3050 Feb 20 2016 nfs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 07:57 panic
apt policy initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools:
Installed: 0.130
Candidate: 0.130
Version table:
*** 0.130 500
500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
