On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 10:50:44AM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.144 > Followup-For: Bug #1079150 > > Sadly, it is unable to regenerate the initramfs properly due to a different > problem related to the reiserfsprogs hook. > > ``` > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.10.6-amd64 > cp: cannot stat '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_zoQopR//usr/sbin/reiserfsck': Too many > levels of symbolic links > ln: failed to create symbolic link > '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_zoQopR/sbin/reiserfsck': File exists > cp: cannot stat '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_zoQopR//usr/sbin/reiserfsck': Too many > levels of symbolic links > E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/reiserfsprogs failed with return 1. > ``` > > After commenting out the line where the reiserfsprogs hook was trying to copy > reiserfsck, I was able to generate a valid initramfs that allowed me to boot > normally.
Same problem here, First found the waiting for device problem making boot fail. Booting from an older kernel image succeeded, but when upgrading kernel package I found exact above problem. Downgrading to testing initramfs-tools seems to help building the image (not yet rebooted). Created image has size similar to that of working image. Note that the image causing the "waiting for device problem" was remarkably smaller. Regards, -- Agustin
