** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** No longer affects: ubuntustudio
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1837080
Title:
Recent update causes boot failure
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Ubuntu Studio 19.04 (also experienced with Ubuntu-18.04.2LTS with
Studio Upgrade). Latest kernel 5.0.0-20 can't build an initialramfs
due to problems finding fonts or Plymouth objects. On reboot, system
can't start a display server. It loads, flashes, and then crashes,
cycling endlessly. Can't get into the system with a pseudotty due to
the display server cycling.
It seems to be a support package and not the kernel directly. I
downgrades the kernel to 5.0.0-13 by launching an installer USB and
mounting the root filesystem that way. chroot to the mount point and
use apt to purge the offending kernel directly. But the problem
persisted.
I re-installed with Ubuntu Studio 19.04 and during install system
updates left the installer unable to write a boot record (because it
couldn't create an initialramfs).
Hardware:
AMD 1950x Threadripper
AMD VEGA FE
Samsung nvme boot disk
simple usb stick as install media.
I don't have log output or screen output as I couldn't cut and paste
or otherwise save it.
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