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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.55b
Severity: important
Tags: patch
When booting a diskless Athlon64 system via NFS v3, the boot times out and
fails to a busybox
at the nfsmount command in the script nfs. The complaints it gives include
'short read 0 < 58'
and a complaint about no TCP response. Changing the boot options (and checking
that they are
actually the ones passed to nfsmount) to '-o udp,nolock,retrans=10' still locks
at the same
spot with eventual read timeouts.
Changing one line the short script file 'nfs' to use
mount -t nfs ...
instead of
nfsmount ....
Then update-initramfs -u, then copying the new initrd image to the right tftp
boot directory solved the problem. Normal
operations resumed. In fact I was able to include in the pxelinux config file
the further commands NFSOPTS="-o
nolock,udp,retrans=10,wsize=8192,rsize=8192" to get a dramatic performance
benefit.
If there is interest in diskless booting with the initramfs tools, the
'nfsroot=auto' script needs fixing too as it puts in
the IP address twice and the boot fails. I had to put
nfsroot=192.168.0.111:/my/path/to/root explicitly in the
pxelinux.0/${macaddressinhexhere} setup file before I got it to work. I have
no idea why nfsmount didn't work,
but I feel pretty sure the problem is bigger than simply the unavailability of
the portmap daemon.
I'm actually using the diskless system now to file this report, to give folk
confidence in can happen. My goal was to get
as close to a 'vanilla' Debian system with as few speciality-diskless packages
and option settings as possible running.
With this little fix to the nfs script this diskless system is otherwise
logically identical to a vanilla disk based one
that has everything in a single partition with only nfs client compiled in as
an 'extra'. Next project, to add a little
swapfile 'just in case' then, done!
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Harry Coin
Bettendorf, Iowa
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15diskless-a64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii busybox 1:1.01-4 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii cpio 2.6-11 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii klibc-utils 1.2.4-1 small statically-linked utilities
ii udev 0.087-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.70b
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initramfs-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
initramfs-tools_0.70b.dsc
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.70b.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.70b.tar.gz
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.70b.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.70b_all.deb
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.70b_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated initramfs-tools
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:00:47 +0200
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.70b
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
initramfs-tools - tools for generating an initramfs
Closes: 359926 367567
Changes:
initramfs-tools (0.70b) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Be more careful about vi dot files, removed.
Thanks Frederik Schüler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for review.
.
initramfs-tools (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
.
* mkinitramfs: Don't include static kinit, nor gzip. They are the biggest
klibc-utils binaries and we don't use them. Keep static gunzip, zcat and
shared kinit for now.
.
* Reduce diff against 0.69ubuntu3:
- hook-functions: Fix kernel typo.
- hooks/kernelextras: Fix comment and add vga16fb too.
- init: Whitespace cleanup, add one more quiet check.
- mkinitramfs: Use check_minkver instead of dpkg itself. Whitespace
cleanup and add quoting.
- scripts/local: Whitespace cleanup and add a comment.
- scripts/nfs: Use mount with nolock instead of nfsmount.
(closes: 359926)
- update-initramfs: Add quoting + whitespace fix.
- changelog: for noise reduction add 0.69ubuntu{1,2,3}, all 0.40ubuntu*,
0.36ubuntu1 and missing 0.29 + 0.28 entries.
- initramfs-tools.install, initramfs-tools.postinst and
initramfs-tools.preinst merge 0.69ubuntu3.
.
* break.txt, debian/NEWS, debian/changelog, debian/copyright,
docs/example_hook, docs/example_hook_cpiogz, docs/example_script,
hooks/lvm, hooks/md, init, initramfs-tools.8, initramfs.conf.5,
mkinitramfs, mkinitramfs-kpkg, mkinitramfs-kpkg.8, mkinitramfs.8,
scripts/functions, scripts/local-top/udev_helper, update-initramfs,
update-initramfs.8: Cleanup trailing whitespace and non tabular indents.
.
* scripts/local-premount/resume: Use new resume bin from klibc-utils.
Removes superflous stat and awk usage.
.
* debian/control: Depend against newer klibc-utils 1.4.11-1.
.
* hooks/md, scripts/local-top/md: Drop as mdadm > 2.5-1 features them.
(closes: #367567)
Files:
18bd00f14e5b511a2eb53b92eba50113 625 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.70b.dsc
648d0f801a0a271cbf5756d9ce62cef6 43063 utils optional
initramfs-tools_0.70b.tar.gz
6f9a34d173ce98e77fd29a574a6ccaf1 49334 utils optional
initramfs-tools_0.70b_all.deb
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