Hi, On 2025-09-10 12:53, Johan Palmqvist wrote: > Package: libc-bin > Version: 2.36-9+deb12u13 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch upstream > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > ldd fails due to unbound variable named "unused" when run from scripts where > "set -u" is used. This in turn makes update-initramfs silently generate > truncated initrd's which refuse to boot properly due to missing > "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/*".
Thanks for reporting the issue. While I agree this is something that can be fixed, I have problem to understand how it causes issues with update-initramfs: 1) Calling a script from another doesn't apply the shell options from the caller to the callee 2) This is even more true given that your /bin/sh links to dash, and update-initramfs uses /bin/sh while ldd explicitly uses /bin/bash. 3) Could you please tell me where initramfs-tools uses "set -u"? Given you reported the issue against the version in oldstable, this is important to understand the severity of the bug and the need to get it fixed in oldstable with regard to your claim that it prevents systems booting. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://aurel32.net
