Bug#845302: systemd: 232-6:Failed to boot, makes kernel panic when starting /sbin/init.

[Michael Biebl]

Am 23.11.2016 um 14:30 schrieb Michael Biebl:

> I'm going to reassign this to initramfs-tools as it uses mount
> implementations from either klibc-utils or busybox which are both
> incomplete and as a result, fail to mount /usr.
> 
> I decided against reassigning this to busybox and klibc-utils.
> I think it's preferable, if initramfs-tools simply uses the mount
> implementation from the real systemd, i.e. util-linux. This guarantees
> that we won't run into such problems again in the future.
> 
> The mount utility is tiny, all its library dependencies are already in
> the initramfs. Rebuilding the initramfs with mount from u-l increases
> the size by 17K.
> 
> We would also have to make sure to use mount --move in
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init for /run, /sys and /proc
> 
> Ben, what's your take on this?

Something like the attached patch should do the trick.
I wonder though, if we should use the other tools from mount as well,
like umount, swapon/off

Feedback welcome.


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