Applied the 'fix' from Comment #11 by vmc(vmclark) in Linux Mint 20. The error is no longer logged. Some boots on my HP laptop with a 5400RPM spinning Hard drive are slow but some are faster but some around the same time with lz4. Hard disk performance on my laptop is better with gzip than lz4. With lz4 the PC extremely lags when some apt packages are being set up and configured and some final configurations after most or all packages are installed, set up and configured but with gzip, the lag never occurs and PC is usable. Hard disk read benchmarks are better with gzip than with lz4. I think that lz4 is more suitable for an SSD than a spinning hard drive
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835660 Title: initramfs unpacking failed Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: "initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed", message appears on boot up. If I "update-initramfs" using gzip instead of lz, then boot up passes without decoding failed message. --- However, we currently believe that the decoding error reported in dmesg is actually harmless and has no impact on usability on the system. Switching from lz4 to gzip compression, simply papers over the warning, without any benefits, and slows down boot. Kernel should be fixed to correctly parse lz4 compressed initrds, or at least lower the warning, to not be user visible as an error. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835660/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
