[Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

Tue Feb 21 10:36:27 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 20/02/12 23:24 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Monday 20 February 2012 22:45, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> Can you reliably reproduce this broken initrd (i.e. get the same results
+>> from your lsinitrd-broken.txt?
+> 
+> And just how do I do that?
+> I got this problem simply by running "urpmi --auto-update" and rebooted.
+> 
+>> I've had several reports about this (nothing in bin/ except two plymout
+>> binaries), but I've not been able to get anyone who can then
+>> subsequently recreate the problem running dracut manually...
+>>
+>> If you can, please do get in touch.
+> 
+> I'm willing to try. :-)=
+> I just don't know what to do.
+
+Basically boot into a working kernel+ramdisk. Then, as root:
+
+
+dracut -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+lsinitrd foo.img | grep " bin/"
+
+Then secondly:
+
+mkinitrd -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+lsinitrd foo.img | grep " bin/"
+
+
+Note that if things are working OK, both these commands should do
+exactly the same thing. If the output looks different, then something is
+wrong.
+
+
+
+In a working system the output should look something like:
+
+[root at jimmy ~]# dracut -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+I: *** Including module: bootchart ***
+I: *** Including module: dash ***
+I: *** Including module: i18n ***
+I: *** Including module: rpmversion ***
+I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
+I: *** Including module: dm ***
+I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
+I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
+I: *** Including module: lvm ***
+I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
+I: *** Including module: resume ***
+I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
+I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
+I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
+I: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
+I: Skipping udev rule: 95-late.rules
+I: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
+I: *** Including module: usrmount ***
+I: *** Including module: base ***
+I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
+I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
+I: Skipping program kexec as it cannot be found and is flagged to be
+optional
+I: *** Including modules done ***
+lsiniI: Wrote /root/foo.img:
+I: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7154651 Feb 21 09:34 /root/foo.img
+[root at jimmy ~]# lsinitrd foo.img | grep " bin/"
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       126128 Aug 27 10:58 bin/cp
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13040 Jul 21  2011 bin/kbd_mode
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        14136 Jan 25 07:56 bin/flock
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       830760 May  9  2011 bin/bash
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        67872 Aug 27 10:58 bin/stty
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        58560 Aug 27 10:58 bin/rm
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        96096 Sep  8 22:22 bin/dash
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50304 Aug 27 10:58 bin/mkdir
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       137272 Nov 18 19:28 bin/grep
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29664 Aug 27 10:58 bin/sleep
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        20160 Jan 14  2011 bin/pkill
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        42376 Jul 21  2011 bin/setfont
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       114064 Jul 21  2011 bin/loadkeys
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50344 Aug 27 10:58 bin/ln
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50400 Aug 27 10:58 bin/cat
+lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Feb 21 09:33 bin/sh -> dash
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       116296 Aug 27 10:58 bin/mv
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        22120 Jan 25 07:56 bin/dmesg
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        39248 Dec 19 09:11 bin/plymouth
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29664 Aug 27 10:58 bin/uname
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        37896 Aug 27 10:58 bin/[
+-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        55216 Jan 25 07:56 bin/umount
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       132280 Jan 12  2011 bin/sed
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29648 Aug 27 10:58 bin/basename
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        33792 Aug 27 10:58 bin/mknod
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       109960 Aug 27 10:58 bin/ls
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        10328 Feb 16 14:10 bin/usleep
+-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        72808 Jan 25 07:56 bin/mount
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        83944 Dec 19 09:11 bin/plymouthd
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29648 Aug 27 10:58 bin/echo
+[root at jimmy ~]# mkinitrd -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
+I: *** Including module: bootchart ***
+I: *** Including module: dash ***
+I: *** Including module: i18n ***
+I: *** Including module: rpmversion ***
+I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
+I: *** Including module: dm ***
+I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
+I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
+I: *** Including module: lvm ***
+I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
+I: *** Including module: resume ***
+I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
+I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
+I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
+I: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
+I: Skipping udev rule: 95-late.rules
+I: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
+I: *** Including module: usrmount ***
+I: *** Including module: base ***
+I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
+I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
+I: Skipping program kexec as it cannot be found and is flagged to be
+optional
+I: *** Including modules done ***
+I: Wrote /root/foo.img:
+I: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7154561 Feb 21 09:35 /root/foo.img
+[root at jimmy ~]# lsinitrd foo.img | grep " bin/"
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       126128 Aug 27 10:58 bin/cp
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13040 Jul 21  2011 bin/kbd_mode
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        14136 Jan 25 07:56 bin/flock
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       830760 May  9  2011 bin/bash
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        67872 Aug 27 10:58 bin/stty
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        58560 Aug 27 10:58 bin/rm
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        96096 Sep  8 22:22 bin/dash
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50304 Aug 27 10:58 bin/mkdir
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       137272 Nov 18 19:28 bin/grep
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29664 Aug 27 10:58 bin/sleep
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        20160 Jan 14  2011 bin/pkill
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        42376 Jul 21  2011 bin/setfont
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       114064 Jul 21  2011 bin/loadkeys
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50344 Aug 27 10:58 bin/ln
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50400 Aug 27 10:58 bin/cat
+lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Feb 21 09:35 bin/sh -> dash
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       116296 Aug 27 10:58 bin/mv
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        22120 Jan 25 07:56 bin/dmesg
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        39248 Dec 19 09:11 bin/plymouth
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29664 Aug 27 10:58 bin/uname
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        37896 Aug 27 10:58 bin/[
+-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        55216 Jan 25 07:56 bin/umount
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       132280 Jan 12  2011 bin/sed
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29648 Aug 27 10:58 bin/basename
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        33792 Aug 27 10:58 bin/mknod
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       109960 Aug 27 10:58 bin/ls
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        10328 Feb 16 14:10 bin/usleep
+-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        72808 Jan 25 07:56 bin/mount
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        83944 Dec 19 09:11 bin/plymouthd
+-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29648 Aug 27 10:58 bin/echo
+
+
+
+Some more details here:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4541
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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