Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.150
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
first off: I think this issue is of severity serious, but I relay to
your judgment. Cause it also happens after I manually downgraded to:
- initramfs-tools_0.149_all.deb
- initramfs-tools-bin_0.149_amd64.deb
- initramfs-tools-core_0.149_all.deb
What happens?
% update-initramfs -k all -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.18.8-t14g5
E: busybox or busybox-static is required but not installed
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.18.8-t14g5 with 1.
Also happened already during upgrade to 0.150.
So far it seems that I can still boot, cause the old initramfs images are
still available. But it does not generate any new initramfs images
anymore.
Busybox is installed. First it was linked busybox, but now I switched to
busybox-static.
It is installed and working:
% which busybox
/usr/bin/busybox
% /usr/bin/busybox | head -2
BusyBox v1.37.0 (Debian 1:1.37.0-9) multi-call binary.
BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2015.
Path in shell for root user where I started update-initramfs manually
to verify the issue:
~/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
I even copied it to /usr/sbin just in case, but to no avail.
Recently I removed Debian kernel images, cause I use self-compiled
kernels. However even installing linux-image-amd64 again does not fix
the issue.
Other packages installed with todays update:
at-spi2-common gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 libavahi-common3
at-spi2-core git-debpush libavahi-glib1
binutils libatk-bridge2.0-0t64 libbinutils
binutils-common libatk1.0-0t64 libbrotli1
binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu libatspi2.0-0t64 libbrotli1:i386
busybox libavahi-client3 libctf-nobfd0
gir1.2-atk-1.0 libavahi-common-data libctf0
libdrm-amdgpu1 libindi-data libpackagekit-glib2-18 unrelated
libdrm-common libindiclient2 libsframe3 unrelated
libdrm-intel1 libinput-bin libxdamage1 openvpn
libdrm-nouveau2 libinput10 libxkbcommon-x11-0 python3-brotli
libdrm-radeon1 libjs-underscore libxkbcommon0 python3-tqdm
libdrm2 libnbd0 libxkbregistry0 x11proto-dev
libgprofng0 libostree-1-1 unrelated
I likely will not have much time, if any, to do additional research this
or next week. If downgrading any other package can help to restore
functionality, please advice.
Best regards,
Martin
-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31M Feb 1 09:45 /boot/initrd.img-6.18.7-t14g5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31M Feb 1 19:54 /boot/initrd.img-6.18.8-t14g5
-- /proc/cmdline
Unrelated to issue at hand.
-- resume
RESUME=/dev/flash1/swap
-- /proc/filesystems
fuseblk
btrfs
ext3
ext2
ext4
vfat
bcachefs
xfs
-- lsmod
Unrelated to issue at hand.
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=auto
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=zstd
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto
RUNSIZE=10%
FSTYPE=auto
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no
-- /etc/crypttab
Security and privacy sensitive and completely irrelevant here.
Should not be included by default.
-- mkinitramfs hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/:
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks:
amd64_microcode
bcachefs
btrfs
cryptgnupg
cryptgnupg-sc
cryptkeyctl
cryptopensc
cryptpassdev
cryptroot
cryptroot-unlock
dmsetup
fsck
fuse
keymap
klibc-utils
kmod
lvm2
ntfs_3g
resume
thermal
udev
xfs
zz-busybox
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 7 (freia/ceres)
Release: 7
Codename: freia ceres
Architecture: x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.18.8-t14g5 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii initramfs-tools-core 0.150
ii linux-base 4.15
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:2.16.0-8
-- no debconf information
--
Martin
