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  • [OT] initramfstools 0.144 safe to use?

    From Martin Steigerwald@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 22 10:50:01 2024
    Hi!

    Bug#1079273: initramfs-tools: Error with initramfs-tools during apt full- upgrade on Debian Sid and reiserfsck

    https://bugs.debian.org/1079273


    To me it appears it may not be able to generate the initrd not only with reiserfsck but maybe also depending on some other tools that may need to
    be installed. dmraid is mentioned in a comment to the bug. Maybe it only affects these two, which I do not have installed. /usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 is sym-linked to /usr/sbin/e2fsck but this is already the binary, so I bet
    that would not count as too many levels.

    Just as a cautionary warning. Maybe it is no issue for your system. I
    decided to wait a bit. Especially as there are already 2 other bugs merged
    with this one. But these are related to reiserfsck as well.

    If someone takes the plunge and upgrades to initramfstools 0.144 and it
    works, please let me know.

    Please let me know in case you do not want this kind of a warning here. It
    is off topic, I know. But as the kmod warning really was helpful to me, I thought I just write this mail. This does not seem to be as severe as the
    kmod thing however.

    Best,
    --
    Martin

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  • From Diederik de Haas@21:1/5 to Martin Steigerwald on Thu Aug 22 11:20:01 2024
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    On Thu Aug 22, 2024 at 10:48 AM CEST, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
    Bug#1079273: initramfs-tools: Error with initramfs-tools during apt full- upgrade on Debian Sid and reiserfsck

    https://bugs.debian.org/1079273

    It is off topic, I know. But as the kmod warning really was helpful to me,
    I thought I just write this mail. This does not seem to be as severe as
    the kmod thing however.

    Rule of thumb: If you see errors during generation of initramfs, do not
    reboot but investigate first. If ``ls -lh /boot/initrd*`` does NOT show anything out of the ordinary (wrt the updated initramfs), then you're
    probably fine.

    And in general: if there are problems, it's *very* likely APT warned you
    about in advance and/or during execution.
    So don't use `-y` and read what APT tells you and then use common sense.

    With the kmod issue, I did see the errors mentioned in the bug
    report(s), so I investigated it.
    I reported it here given the severity AND it came *together* with KDE
    related updates which could (and did) fix previous KDE related issues.
    After those updates I wanted to reboot directly. Luckily I didn't
    because I choose to first investigate the reported problem.
    Given by the messages on #debian-next, that's apparently not something
    that everyone does ;-P

    Cheers,
    Diederik

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  • From Helge Reimer@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 22 16:40:01 2024
    Am Donnerstag, 22. August 2024, 10:48:14 CEST schrieb Martin Steigerwald:

    If someone takes the plunge and upgrades to initramfstools 0.144 and it works, please let me know.

    Just did an upgrade and reboot.
    Works!

    --
    Gru�
    Helge

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  • From Soren Stoutner@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 13:56:56 2024
    On Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:25:02 AM MST Sedat Dilek wrote:
    TIPP: So, you should always have a 2nd linux-image installed for RESCUE
    cases.

    Agreed. Although, if you have forgot to do so, you can always boot into the Debian installer in rescue mode and fix your problem that way.

    --
    Soren Stoutner
    [email protected]
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  • From Andrey Rakhmatullin@21:1/5 to Soren Stoutner on Sat Aug 24 09:10:01 2024
    On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 01:56:56PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
    On Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:25:02 AM MST Sedat Dilek wrote:
    TIPP: So, you should always have a 2nd linux-image installed for RESCUE
    cases.

    Agreed. Although, if you have forgot to do so, you can always boot into the Debian installer in rescue mode and fix your problem that way.

    Alternatively, keep a flash drive with GRML.


    --
    WBR, wRAR

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