Public bug reported: dropbear-initramfs seems to fail on not figuring out what the root device is. This applies both to autoinstall and manual install and is observed on today's beta (ubuntu-24.04-beta-live-server-amd64.iso on 2024-04-12)
ubuntu@ubuntu-server:~$ sudo apt install dropbear-initramfs [sudo] password for ubuntu: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done dropbear-initramfs is already the newest version (2022.83-4). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu24) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu24) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-22-generic dropbear: WARNING: Couldn't find ~root, SSH login to initramfs won't work! E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dropbear failed with return 1. update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-22-generic with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Affects: dropbear (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2061140 Title: dropbear-initramfs package fails to install on Ubuntu 24.04 beta server To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dropbear/+bug/2061140/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs