Package: dropbear-initramfs Version: 2022.82-3 Severity: minor While experimenting with the kernel 'ip=' parameter (see Bug#1015287), I have been seeing strange errors on screen during bootup. Note that these are cases in which the kernel networking initialisation fails but, as I don't actually need initramfs dropbear access for the boot itself, the system continues to boot anyway.
As an example of the strange error: part way through the main system boot (at least a minute AFTER initramfs is over and the main startup is running) I get this message: /scripts/init-premount/dropbear: line 384: can't open '/run/net-*.conf': No such file or directory Other messages and errors occur - in some circumstances I have seen many, many screenfuls of errors complaining that many basic system utilities are missing (although startup works despite the messages)! I assume the initramfs busybox files have disappeared from the filesystem but has left some script running. I am guessing main issue is the one documented in "wait_for_dropbear" in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/dropbear. wait_for_dropbear seems to be waiting for a long time (longer than the initramfs takes to run and well into the main system startup), before giving up and returning. By the time it returns, the initramfs context has disappeared and the rest of init-bottom/dropbear (and also /scripts/init-premount/dropbear ??) are running in an environment where the initramfs is no longer available. I assume that this will occur on any system which does not require user interaction during initramfs but has dropbear-initramfs and an invalid 'ip=' specification. I am setting the priority to minor because it seems the only impact is that the console loses a load of startup messages because of the spurious messages from the initramfs scripts still running after main boot is underway. Graham -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE.utf8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dropbear-initramfs depends on: ii busybox 1:1.35.0-1 ii dropbear-bin 2022.82-3 ii initramfs-tools 0.142 ii udev 251.2-7 Versions of packages dropbear-initramfs recommends: ii cryptsetup-initramfs 2:2.4.3-1 dropbear-initramfs suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
