Package: dracut Version: 020-2 Followup-For: Bug #719740 Hi there, I just installed a wheezy 7.6.0 on my system, and I'm using dracut 020-2 (when installed, keep reading). I think also this bug is related to #705805
The default installation was OK, running Kernel 3.2.0 and initramfs-tools 0.109.1. This Kernel has a bug (my USB W-Lan Stick doesn't work with a USB-3-Port, it seems the maintainer won't fix that :-/ ). I wanted to solve the Problem with a new Kernel from backports 3.12. This works great with dracut on a "not encrypted" installation. But with an encrypted system, it doesn't work. Here at first my disk layout: claudio@boromir:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 931,5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 292,9G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 20G 0 part ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part |-sda5 8:5 0 616,7G 0 part │ └─sda5_crypt (dm-0) 253:0 0 616,7G 0 crypt │ ├─boromir-swap (dm-1) 253:1 0 7,7G 0 lvm [SWAP] │ ├─boromir-root (dm-2) 253:2 0 28G 0 lvm / │ ├─boromir-home (dm-3) 253:3 0 9,3G 0 lvm /home │ └─boromir-opt (dm-4) 253:4 0 571,8G 0 lvm /opt └─sda6 8:6 0 1,8G 0 part /boot Just for the understanding. I have 2 Debian installations, one unencrypted in sda6 (only Debian base system), which works with kernel 3.12 from bpo and dracut, and my main installation in (dm-2) works also with 3.2.0 (mounting everything in sda5_crypt + sda6 (as /boot)) See http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/09/cryptroot/ for more details. sda1-sda4 are irrelevant. When sda5-dm2 has Kernel 3.2 and initramfs-tools, and sda6 has kernel 3.12, I can boot both. So then I installed on sda5-dm2 kernel 3.12 too, and also the needed dracut. If I then reboot, I will enter the crypt-volume password as prompted, but then nothing happen. I waited some minutes, but nothing happened at all. I read that there should be a dracut console... but even that doesn't show up. The first time I enter the password, it won't echo. But after that every thing I type, will be echoed. (Nothing happens anyway) Probably another bug is that the keyboard layout was not loaded. So I typed a password using the "en" Layout. And I tryed also to type this correctly (using the wrong layout). Nothing worked. The rc.auto=1 also didn't work. And odd enough: The unencrypted partition (sda6) wouldn't also boot. When I select it in grub, it also asks for a password, and it hangs there. Before the update, I mustn't enter a password for this partition. Here is at least some useful information, I found nowhere: When I'm in this state, no Debian partition will boot anymore. To repair the boot I do the following: - Boot from the Debian Netinstall CD - Select rescue - Enter the password for the encrypted volume, when asked for - Mount the / of the installation (dm2) - Start a shell on the partition. - Mount the /boot (manually) - Remove the 3.12 kernel and dracut. - Reinstall initramfs-tools After that the boot will still hang. So you need also to recreate the initrd. I used then update-initramfs -k all -ut Only after that I was able to boot the system again. I haven't tryed a newer version of dracut, as there is none in proposed-updates. Will it be a problem to install the version of jessey or sid in wheezy? Or will be there a version for bpo? Sorry that I'm reporting this now from a system without dracut, but I can only boot my encryped system on wheezy without it. What should I do/try? -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dracut depends on: ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-0.1 ii kbd 1.15.3-9 pn kpartx <none> ii module-init-tools 9-3 ii udev 175-7.2 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.3 Versions of packages dracut recommends: ii cryptsetup 2:1.4.3-4 pn dmraid <none> ii dmsetup 2:1.02.74-8 ii lvm2 2.02.95-8 ii mdadm 3.2.5-5 Versions of packages dracut suggests: pn dracut-network <none> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
