Bug#336317: initramfs-tools: created initramfs is unable to boot a system with mirrored rootdisks
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 08:51, maximilian attems wrote: [...] hmm i had suspected a more esoteric setup. tested it myself with latest initramfs-tools on raid root. [...] yes can you put the initramfs archive somewhere online where i can take a look at it. how did you generate it? does regenerating the initramfs image help: update-initramfs -u -t -k 2.6.14-1-686 assuming you use the linux-image-2.6-686 from unstable? The initramfs was created by the kernel postinstall script. I did recreate the kernel image like you suggested. Same result: /dev/md0 not found and the USB keyboard does not work in the shell. I am using the k7 kernel from unstable. You can find the initramfs image at: http://www.kubla.de/temp/initramfs-2.6.14-1-k7 Regards, Dominik -- Verschmilzt die Wirtschaft Europas zur Gemeinschaft, und das wird früher geschehen, als wir denken, so verschmilzt auch die Politik. -- Walter Rathenau (1867-1922)
Bug#336317: initramfs-tools: created initramfs is unable to boot a system with mirrored rootdisks
On Monday 31 October 2005 11:42, maximilian attems wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Dominik Kubla wrote: The created initramfs drops into a shell because /dev/md0 can not be mounted. This is a regression from version 0.30. what is your setup? please send the output of /proc/mdstat? # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 hda3[0] hdc3[1] 19591168 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdc1[1] 15623104 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 hda2[0] hdc2[1] 3903680 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: none have you mdadm installed on that box? what does dpkg -l mdadm show? # dpkg -l mdadm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii mdadm 1.12.0-1 tool to administer Linux md device arrays (s Additional infos: $ cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/md0/ ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/md1noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/md2/home ext3defaults0 2 /dev/hdc4 /scratchext3defaults0 2 /dev/hdb/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 tmpfs /tmptmpfs mode=1777,size=2G 0 0 $ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 15377744 3755052 10841540 26% / /dev/md2 19283236 14418876 4864360 75% /home /dev/hdc4 39376392 1769000 35607168 5% /scratch tmpfs 209715272 2097080 1% /tmp tmpfs 648296 0648296 0% /dev/shm tmpfs10240 144 10096 2% /dev $ sfdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 77622 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 77622/16/63). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 19441945- 15623181 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda2 19452430 4863903795 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda3 243148692439 19591267+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda4 0 - 0 00 Empty $ sfdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 158816 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 0+ 31001 31002- 15624976+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc2 31002 3875177503906000 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc3 38752 79441 40690 20507760 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc4 79442 158815 79374 40004496 83 Linux If you need any more info, please let me know ... Many thanks for your work! Dominik -- Verschmilzt die Wirtschaft Europas zur Gemeinschaft, und das wird früher geschehen, als wir denken, so verschmilzt auch die Politik. -- Walther Rathenau (1867-1922)
Bug#336317: initramfs-tools: created initramfs is unable to boot a system with mirrored rootdisks
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.37 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system The created initramfs drops into a shell because /dev/md0 can not be mounted. This is a regression from version 0.30. The shell is unusable because USB keyboards are not fully initialized: they are no longer working in PS/2-Emulation mode, but not yet working in USB mode. The system is left in an unusable state. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-k7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii busybox 1:1.01-3 Tiny utilities for small and embed ii cpio 2.6-8 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii klibc-utils 1.1.1-2small statically-linked utilities ii mklibs-copy 0.1.18 Shared library reduction script ii udev 0.071-1/dev/ and hotplug management daemo initramfs-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#333067: linux-image-k7: System unusable after reboot because rivafb is compiled with debugging enabled.
Package: linux-image-k7 Version: 2.6.12-10 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system After updating udev a reboot resulted in a unusable system because rivafb was being loaded by udev/coldplug. rivafb is not usable, especially not when being compiled with debugging enabled. Result was a system that only printed panning related debugging messages. To revive the system i had to boot into emergency mode (using -b, using the grub recovery boot was not successful. I doubt a normal user would have known what to do.) and delete rivafb. Now udev was correctly using nvidiafb, which worked. And the bottomline is: * Don't compile any modules with debugging support enabled. (If you like you can provide a kernel-modules-dbg package.) In almost all cases the debugging options are only useful to kernel developers anyway. * Don't compile rivafb: it was never really usable and except for old riva cards nvidiafb is the better choice anyway (but that is arguably a bug in udev/coldplug). Regards, Dominik -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linux-image-k7 depends on: ii linux-image-2.6-k72.6.12-10 Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7 m linux-image-k7 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
