On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 06:47 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 08:10:31AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: does not support CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS > > > > On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 00:31 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > Sure, there you go > > > > > > > > > Now I see the problem. It runs > > > modprobe --all --set-version=3.19.2-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20141114 > > > --ignore-install --quiet --show-depends multipath.ko > > > but I have > > > /lib/modules/3.19.2-amd64-i915-volpreempt-20141114/kernel/drivers/md/multipath.ko.gz > > > > > (trailing .gz) > > > > Ah, yes. I see this is a new kernel option, CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS (with > > gz and xz variants) which seems to have been introduced in v3.18-rc1. > > > > I suppose disabling that in your local builds would work around the > > issue until initramfs-tools can be taught to cope. > > Yes, it was late last night when I found this, but indeed this was my > plan :) > > All I needed was the way to run initramfs in debug mode and then it was > obvious. > Would you mind adding this in the man page? I could have debugged this a > while ago had I had the easy way to run it in debug mode.
Adding some sort of --debug-trace option would be nicer than documenting "run it under sh -x", but yes, it could be made easier/more obvious that this was a useful debugging technique. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org