Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-10-01 Thread Lionel Gamay
Hi Henrique, I found where does the problem come from. My /tmp is mounted with noexec option since ages. If I remount it with exec before running update-initramfs -u, there is no error and then the next reboot is ok. I had a similar problem a few weeks ago with the new flashplayer updater script

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-10-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
reassign 688794 initramfs-tools severity 688794 important retitle 688794 [initramfs] scripts/hook-functions: breaks boot if /tmp noexec clone 688794 -1 retitle -1 [initramfs] scripts/functions: PANICs when ORDER files are missing thanks Summary: 1. scripts/hook-functions malfunctions if /tmp is

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Lionel Gamay wrote: Meanwhile I tried something else: I kept the intel-microde and iucode-tool packages installed but used the previous microcode-free kernel instead of the one generated after installing the above packages. However, I added microcode to /etc/modules in

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Ok, I found the problem. Your broken initramfs image is missing the ORDER files. All initramfs images that work fine have the ORDER files. There are _three_ codepaths in the initramfs script/functions: one wants the ORDER files (which are missing in your initramfs image), the other wants tsort

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-29 Thread Lionel Gamay
Hi Henrique, 2012/9/29 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Lionel Gamay wrote: I followed you advice but I still get a similar error message, without any reference to udev: Loading, please wait... /init: eval: line 1: array_intel_microcode=: not found /init:

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-29 Thread Lionel Gamay
Meanwhile I tried something else: I kept the intel-microde and iucode-tool packages installed but used the previous microcode-free kernel instead of the one generated after installing the above packages. However, I added microcode to /etc/modules in order to force module loading. When I boot the

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-28 Thread Lionel Gamay
Hi Henrique, I followed you advice but I still get a similar error message, without any reference to udev: Loading, please wait... /init: eval: line 1: array_intel_microcode=: not found /init: eval: line 1: array_intel_microcode=: not found PANIC: Circular dependancy. Exiting. Then I am dropped

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Lionel Gamay wrote: I followed you advice but I still get a similar error message, without any reference to udev: Loading, please wait... /init: eval: line 1: array_intel_microcode=: not found /init: eval: line 1: array_intel_microcode=: not found PANIC: Circular

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Lionel Gamay wrote: It is quite weird to get this error on two different machines using different architectures and even while trying two different kernels on these two machines. Then four different configurations lead to this message. BTW, you are right: it is array...

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-26 Thread Lionel Gamay
Hi Henrique, It is quite weird to get this error on two different machines using different architectures and even while trying two different kernels on these two machines. Then four different configurations lead to this message. BTW, you are right: it is array... and not Array... in the error

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-25 Thread Lionel Gamay
Package: intel-microcode Version: 0.20120606-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I tried to upgrade from 1.20120606.1 on my i386 netbook and my current x64 machine, with either 3.2 or 3.5-trunk kernels on each PC. On reboot I always get the following error

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Lionel Gamay wrote: I tried to upgrade from 1.20120606.1 on my i386 netbook and my current x64 machine, with either 3.2 or 3.5-trunk kernels on each PC. On reboot I always get the following error messages before dropping down to BusyBox console: Loading, please wait...

Bug#688794: PANIC: Circular dependancy after reboot when installing 1.20120606.6

2012-09-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
tag 688794 + moreinfo thanks I cannot reproduce this. I have installed a brand-new wheezy VM with the wheezy kernel (3.2.0-3). I installed the old microcode.ctl and intel-microcode packages. It worked. I rebooted. It worked. I upgraded to the new intel-microcode package (which also updates