retitle 562427 please rephrase the installer question about MODULES setting for initramfs-tools reassign 562427 base-installer thanks
hey john, On 23/02/2010 John Martin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Jonas Meurer <jo...@freesources.org> wrote: > > [[...]] where does this driver-policy file come from? it sets > > MODULES=dep, and thus overwrites MODULES=most from > > initramfs.conf. maybe that's the problem? > > Indeed, the problem is with /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy. > Where did it come from? the file is created by the debian-installer in case that you answer a low priority question accordingly. so i guess that you installed with debconf priority=low and selected MODULES=dep. you really should know what you do when selecting MODULES=dep. > > [[...]] unfortunately i'm busy with other things at the moment, and > > only have limited time to help you with debugging an issue that's > > not even related to the cryptsetup package at all. but let's see ... > > Thank you. Your help and patience has been very much appreciated. > > What now? This is now clearly not a bug in cryptsetup. Should this > bug be held open _somewhere_ pending a witch hunt for the origin of > the driver-policy file and maybe why it remained in place? I dunno > when I might have a chance to try to reproduce the install on a the > same or a similar box. In any event, unless it would be pointless, I > should perhaps try to look for other packages that may have been > involved with initramfs-tools during or immediately after initial > installation. I would welcome a list of plausible suspects. Recall > this was/is a devastating bug for someone with only a USB keyboard > booting an encrypted system. It might inhabit only amd64 boxen? > > Should this bug be closed now with the intent to open a new bug when a > plausible source of the driver-policy file is isolated? this mail will reassign the bug to base-installer and retitle it to 'please rephrase the installer question about MODULES setting for initramfs-tools' greetings, jonas
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