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initramfs-tools package

initramfs not rebuilt during upgrade (machines with root on lvm or md fail to boot)

Bug #293335 reported by Mekk
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Bug Description

Upgrade 8.04 --> 8.10 does not rebuild initramfs for new kernels (or at least I guess so).

I tested this upgrade on two machines. First: desktop with root on mdadm-managed mirror, second: desktop with root on LVM. In both cases system failed to boot after upgrade (kernel couldn't find root filesystem)

Boot from the old kernel still was possible. On the first machine 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' allowed me to boot from the new kernel. Second machine not tested yet.

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Cyril Lavier (davromaniak) wrote :

Thank you for reporting a bug.

We can't start working because you don't provide us enough information in order to find the faulting process.

I think this bug is related to initramfs-tools, so I changed the affectation.

Regards

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maximilian attems (maks-debian) wrote :

Cause of the boot failure seems missing of the report.
If you can still reproduce on uptodate Ubuntu Lucid or Maverick please report back.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Mekk (marcin-kasperski) wrote :

Since this problem I always manually force initramfs rebuild before rebooting after upgrade, so I do not know.

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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