Bug#1065698: update-initramfs: -k all stopped working

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.142

The update-initramfs manpage documents -k all, and I know I used
that in Kubuntu hardy times several times, but it does not work
any longer, it just does nothing.

Calling without -k of course only updates the image for the current kernel.

Feel free to downgrade severity if needed.

-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 7.4M Mar 9 00:27 /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-4-m68k
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.3M Mar 9 04:21 /boot/initrd.img-6.6.15-m68k
-- /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/nfhd8p1 console=nfcon devtmpfs.mount=1 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinux

-- resume
RESUME=none
-- /proc/filesystems
fuseblk
ext3
ext2
ext4

-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
evdev 16384 0
mac_hid 12288 0
sg 20480 0
ext4 380928 1
crc16 12288 1 ext4
mbcache 12288 1 ext4
jbd2 49152 1 ext4
crc32c_generic 12288 1
sd_mod 45056 0
t10_pi 12288 1 sd_mod
crc64_rocksoft 12288 1 t10_pi
crc64 16384 1 crc64_rocksoft
crc_t10dif 12288 1 t10_pi
crct10dif_generic 12288 1
crct10dif_common 12288 2 crct10dif_generic,crc_t10dif
pata_falcon 12288 0
atari_scsi 20480 0
libata 139264 1 pata_falcon

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel Image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = No

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=dep
BUSYBOX=auto
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto
RUNSIZE=10%
FSTYPE=auto

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no

-- /sys/block
nfhd8
sda

-- mkinitramfs hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/:

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks:
early-rng-init-tools
fsck
keymap
klibc-utils
kmod
resume
thermal
udev
zz-busybox


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: m68k

Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-m68k
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii initramfs-tools-core 0.142
ii linux-base 4.5

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
pn bash-completion <none>

-- no debconf information

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Post by Thorsten Glaser
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.142
The update-initramfs manpage documents -k all, and I know I used
that in Kubuntu hardy times several times, but it does not work
any longer, it just does nothing.
Calling without -k of course only updates the image for the current kernel.

[...]

It works for me.

- What's the full command line that doesn't work?
- What does "linux-version list" say?

Ben.

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Post by Thorsten Glaser
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.142
The update-initramfs manpage documents -k all, and I know I used
that in Kubuntu hardy times several times, but it does not work
any longer, it just does nothing.
Calling without -k of course only updates the image for the current kernel.

[...]

It works for me.

- What's the full command line that doesn't work?
- What does "linux-version list" say?

Ben.

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi Ben

Post by Ben Hutchings
It works for me.

unfortunately, I do not have the system in question any more.

Looking at the version, it=E2=80=99s the same as in bookworm (sans deb12u1)=
,
and a bookworm/armel system I have (RPi 1) indeed succeeds.

Post by Ben Hutchings
- What's the full command line that doesn't work?

=09sudo update-initramfs -uk all

Post by Ben Hutchings
- What does "linux-version list" say?

Wish I knew. It might be an m68k thing, as there have been issues
with how different architectures name their kernels in the past.

Cc=E2=80=99ing cbmuser, maybe you could try to see if the above command
does the right thing (regenerate all initrds for all kernel versions)
on an m68k (n=C5=8Dn-qemu-user) box with more than one kernel installed?

bye,
//mirabilos
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