Bug#918322: initramfs-tools: kernel fails to boot with "Gave up waiting for root file system device"

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Axel

Am 06.01.19 um 13:32 schrieb Axel Ludszuweit:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I have try your udev240-3, unfortunately it fails in the same way as udev240-2. Due to a lack of PS2 keyboard I can't run your suggested commands in the initramfs shell.
> One  thing was other than I expected:
> I have booted with 4.18 initrd image running 4.18 kernel, checked via uname. After installing 
> - udev_240-3~test0_amd64.deb
> - libudev-dev_240-3~test0_amd64.deb
> - libudev1_240-3~test0_amd64.deb
> via dpkg -i *.deb only initrd.img-4.19.0-1-amd64 was rebuilt, although 4.18 kernel was running.
> With the above mentioned udev packages I can boot into 4.18 but not into 4.19.

Thanks for testing the -3~test0 packages.
I've forwarded this particular issue to the upstream bug tracker and the
upstream developers wanted me to test a specific patch, which I applied
to the -3~test0 version.
See
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11314#issuecomment-451380551
Seems that didn't help :-/
I forwarded your results there.

Unfortunately I haven't figured out the conditions yet how to trigger
this issue, so I can't reproduce it myself yet.

Sorry for making you jump through hoops and trying to find the issue by
trial and error. I can imagine this is not fun to do.

Regards,
Michael

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