Package: initramfs-tools Severity: normal Similar to #582858, however for me it still does not work.
When I set MODULES=dep, root cannot be found as the root mountpoint device does not start with '^/dev/' (thanks to my symlinking /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts I also get two /'s also): ---- output of 'mount' ---- rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw,relatime) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=32768k) tmpfs on /var/tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=8192k) /dev/sda1 on /root/moo type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) ---- contents of /proc/mounts ---- rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 ubi0:rootfs / ubifs rw,relatime 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0 varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=32768k 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=8192k 0 0 /dev/sda1 /root/moo vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0 ---- This is trivially resolved by amending the routines that search for the root block device and fstype in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions to the following instead: ---- # findout root block device + fstype eval "$(mount | awk '!/^rootfs / && / on \/ type / {print "root=" $1 "\nFSTYPE=" $5; exit}')" # On failure fallback to /proc/mounts if readable if [ -z "$root" ] && [ -r /proc/mounts ]; then eval "$(awk '!/^rootfs / && / \/ / {print "root=" $1 "\nFSTYPE=" $3; exit}' /proc/mounts)" fi ---- This filters out the useless '^rootfs' entry (enabling embedded folk to continue symlinking) and permits anything (not just '^/dev/...') as the root device. Now the ubifs root filesystem detection functions. It should also be noted, the original 'failure fallback' does not work anyway as it incorrectly refers to $5 (over eager cutting and pasting it seems) when it should refer to $3 for FSTYPE. Cheers ---- System Info (armel - orion5x) ---- root@(none):~# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon rev 0 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 332.59 Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 5TEJ CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0x926 CPU revision : 0 Hardware : Technologic Systems TS-78xx SBC Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org