Bug#917607: udev 240 Makes System Unbootable; rootfs Not Found

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-01-03 11:02:42 -0800, Leo L. Schwab wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 01:46:19PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Same problem, with the keyboard not working, so that I couldn't do
> > anything here. I reported the bug against the Linux kernel, because
> > everything is fine with a 4.18 kernel (which I had fortunately kept,
> > otherwise I would have to find a rescue CD somewhere...):
> >
> 	Hrm.  I don't think it's the kernel that saved you.

Perhaps, as I noticed at the end of my mail, the reason may be that
initrd.img-4.18.0-3-amd64 is old enough (it was built before the
upgrade of the systemd packages to 240).

I can see in the apt/term.log logs that after upgrading the
nvidia packages, there was a

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.132) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-1-amd64

Thus this can explain the first failure, which occurred after the
reboot of the machine a few days ago.

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