On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 02:56:49PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 01:38:42PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I've checked your package and I don't see any update-initramfs >> calls. Please add one. If you'd like help doing that, I can supply a >> patch - just ask! > >I'm confused. I've just tried running "update-initramfs -u" using >initramfs-tools and I'm not seeing any fsck tools. In fact, I'm not >seeing much of anything: > ># update-initramfs -u >update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-00039-ge2bd7c0 ># cpio -it < /boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-00039-ge2bd7c0 >kernel >kernel/x86 >kernel/x86/microcode >kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin >44 blocks > >This is on a debian testing system using systemd. What am I missing? > >If it matters, I'm not using Debian's heavyweight kernel building >instead, but instead am building kernels from upstream using "make >deb-pkg".
Hi Ted, OK, that's weird. The cpio is normally compressed and contains a lot of things: # update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sdb2 W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays. W: mdadm: no arrays defined in configuration file. # zcat /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 | cpio -it | wc -l 105342 blocks 1126 Included in there I have: # zcat /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 | cpio -it | grep fsck etc/e2fsck.conf sbin/e2fsck sbin/fsck.ext4 sbin/fsck and these files are copied in there by initramfs-tools using the /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fsck script. I'm guessing there's an odd interaction with the deb-make pkg stuff. If I try to use cpio -it directly on my initramfs, I get lots of errors: # cpio -it < /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 2>&1 | head cpio: Malformed number I��e�M� cpio: Malformed number ��e�M� cpio: Malformed number �e�M�7 cpio: Malformed number �e�M�7� cpio: Malformed number e�M�7�� cpio: Malformed number �M�7�� cpio: Malformed number M�7��/ cpio: Malformed number �7��/� cpio: Malformed number �7��/�9 cpio: Malformed number 7��/�96 which tells me it can't directly deal with the gzip compression. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt
