Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.73 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable
I'm using lvm2 and when I upgraded to mkinitramfs-tool the system couldn't boot anymore (stock debian 2.6.17-1-k7 kernel). The problem was vgchange couldn't detect my vgs. First I realized that ide-disk module was not loaded (the main problem that causes vgchange to fail). I added the module manually. But even so, is like the drivers or vgchange need some extra time to come up. I had to add a sleep between the the modprobe ide-disk and vgchange to make it work. Finally the specific ide module (amd74xx in my setup) was not loaded either, and when it's not loaded at a very first stage it can't be used so I couldn't use DMA transfers with my HD. I had to hack again the script to manually load this module (before ide-generic was loaded). Here is a very very very ugly patch to fix this problems (in my setup, this is not even a general solution). I just attach it so u can see better how I can boot my system now. I don't know if it's udev failing to detect my hardware, but this was working just fine before that upgrade. Thanks for your help and time and excuse my poor english... -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro vga=791 -- /proc/filesystems cramfs xfs ext3 -- lsmod Module Size Used by nvidia 4549844 12 agpgart 30152 1 nvidia pktcdvd 26620 1 ipv6 223968 12 nfsd 198596 13 exportfs 5888 1 nfsd button 6800 0 ac 5124 0 battery 9476 0 nfs 195404 5 lockd 54152 3 nfsd,nfs nfs_acl 3840 2 nfsd,nfs sunrpc 138876 11 nfsd,nfs,lockd,nfs_acl tuner 46124 0 tvaudio 22556 0 bttv 158324 0 video_buf 23172 1 bttv firmware_class 10112 1 bttv ir_common 27332 1 bttv compat_ioctl32 1728 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 8648 1 bttv v4l2_common 14336 2 tuner,bttv btcx_risc 5000 1 bttv tveeprom 14096 1 bttv videodev 9216 1 bttv forcedeth 26700 0 ext3 119304 1 jbd 50772 1 ext3 mbcache 8580 1 ext3 rtc 12724 0 fuse 35464 0 usb_storage 71488 0 sr_mod 16228 0 sd_mod 19008 0 scsi_mod 123784 3 usb_storage,sr_mod,sd_mod ohci_hcd 18500 0 usbcore 112384 3 usb_storage,ohci_hcd ns558 5056 0 analog 10976 0 joydev 9280 0 snd_intel8x0 30428 2 snd_ac97_codec 82976 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 2624 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss 36704 0 snd_mixer_oss 16192 3 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 74884 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 21124 1 snd_pcm snd 48548 6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9440 3 snd snd_page_alloc 9800 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 14600 3 ns558,analog w83781d 29480 0 hwmon_vid 2880 1 w83781d i2c_isa 5184 1 w83781d i2c_amd756 6468 0 i2c_dev 8772 0 i2c_core 19904 10 nvidia,tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,w83781d,i2c_isa,i2c_amd756,i2c_dev mousedev 11108 1 psmouse 34888 0 floppy 54788 0 ide_cd 36128 1 cdrom 32864 3 pktcdvd,sr_mod,ide_cd xfs 496216 3 dm_mirror 19216 0 dm_snapshot 15968 0 dm_mod 50520 7 dm_mirror,dm_snapshot ide_disk 15360 5 ide_generic 1664 0 [permanent] amd74xx 12956 0 [permanent] ide_core 111432 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,amd74xx thermal 13128 0 processor 25800 1 thermal fan 4804 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-k7 Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii busybox 1:1.1.3-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed ii cpio 2.6-16 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii klibc-utils 1.4.11-3 small statically-linked utilities ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.093-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo initramfs-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- lvm.orig 2006-08-03 16:07:01.179240500 -0300 +++ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm 2006-08-03 17:06:16.938238250 -0300 @@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ # Reduce padded --'s to -'s vg=$(echo ${vg} | sed -e 's#--#-#g') - vgchange -ay ${vg} + # If we don't see the vg yet we wait a little.. + if ! vgchange -ay ${vg}; then + sleep 1 + vgchange -ay ${vg} + fi } if [ -e /scripts/local-top/lvm2 ]; then @@ -64,6 +68,7 @@ exit 0 fi +modprobe -q ide-disk modprobe -q dm-mod modprobe -q dm-snapshot modprobe -q dm-mirror --- local.orig 2006-08-03 16:07:08.223680750 -0300 +++ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local 2006-08-03 17:05:49.440519750 -0300 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ mountroot () { [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/local-top" + /sbin/modprobe amd74xx run_scripts /scripts/local-top [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_end_msg