On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:15 +0800, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Inspecting the initramfs shows that the cryptsetup related parts are > > missing for 4.17, but still in the 4.16 kernel. > > > > I was able to mitigate the issue by use the cryptsetup packages from > > buster. > > This is strange. Kernel packages do not determine what goes into the > initramfs.
Possibly the cryptsetup package changed (and become broken). Then the 4.17 initramfs was (re)built (due to the install/upgrade of that kernel) while the 4.16 initramfs wasn't rebuilt. I expected that there were be triggers in place which should have caused the 4.16 initramfs (in fact, all initramfses) to be updated if a relevant package (e.g. cryptsetup) was changed, but perhaps that was more in hope than expectation and it's only an initramfs-tools update which would trigger that? Ian.
