[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#812145: sysvinit: 2.88dsf-59.3 generates bad initrd.img and boot on hppa

[John David Anglin]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-59.3+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

With initramfs-tools-core_0.121_all.deb, initramfs-tools_0.121_all.deb and
initscripts_2.88dsf-59.3+b1_hppa.deb, boot with a custom kernel fails with
the following errors:

[..deleted..]
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, no debug enabled
Begin: Will now check root file system ... fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
[/sbin/fsck.xfs (1) -- /dev/sdc5] fsck.xfs -a /dev/sdc5 
/sbin/fsck.xfs: XFS file system.
done.
XFS (sdc5): Mounting V4 Filesystem
XFS (sdc5): Ending clean mount
done.
run-init: opening console: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
run-init: opening console: No such file or directory
run-init: opening console: No such file or directory
run-init: opening console: No such file or directory
run-init: opening console: No such file or directory
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done.
run-init: : No such file or directory
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
modprobe: module i8042 not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module ehci-orion not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module uhci-hcd not found in modules.dep
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: USB HID core driver


BusyBox v1.22.1 (Debian 1:1.22.0-16) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs) ls
bin      dev      init     proc     run      scripts  tmp
conf     etc      lib      root     sbin     sys      var

The kernel boots successfully if initramfs-tools-core is purged,
initscripts_2.88dsf-59.2_hppa.deb and initramfs-tools_0.120_all.deb
reinstalled, and initrd.img regenerated.

Regards,
Dave Anglin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: hppa (parisc64)

Kernel: Linux 3.18.25+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  init         1.25
ii  libc6        2.21-6+b1
ii  libselinux1  2.4-3
ii  libsepol1    2.4-2

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information