Package: udev
Version: 0.089-1
Severity: critical
To explain the problem i cut and paste the messages i have sent to
debian-kernel mailing-list:
-----[ MESSAGE 1 ]-----
This morning i have updated my Debian Sid but that left my system in an
unbootable state.
After loading various modules, with apparent no errors, the following
messages followed (hand written, so excuse me if they are not 100% close
to reality):
Begin: running /scripts/local-premount...
Attempting manual resume
Done.
mount: mounting /dev/hda2 on /root failed: no such device
Begin: running /scripts/log-bottom...
Done.
Done.
Begin: running /scripts/init-bottom...
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: no such device or
directory
Done.
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
Then a BusyBox shell open up.
If helps, i have seen the following modules inside /proc/modules:
ide_cd
cdrom
ide_disk
e100
mii
ohci1394
ehci_hcd
uhci_hcd
usbcore
piix
generic
ide_core
thermal
processor
fan
As you can see the modules to mount my ATA (not sata) drive are in
place. I have tryed to mount root manually:
mount /dev/hda2 /
but it fails.
Here is some details of my system:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 2.6.16-5
udev 0.089-1
initramfs-tools 0.59b
grub 0.97-7.1
klibc-utils 1.3.3-1
The machine is a Sony Vaio VGN-B3XP notebook, a tipical Pentium-M with
i855 chipset.
I haven't filed a bug since i can't understand what had caused the problem.
The update that today aptitude had proposed me was not too big (the
previous was less that a week ago) and the packages to upgrade seemed to
me not so critical: no new kernel, no initramfs-tools. I remember that
there was an upgrade for grub and klibc. I can't remember if there was
also a new udev, but looking from packages.qa.debian.org, it is possible.
After rebooting with a kernel 2.6.15 (that i keep for safety), i have
tryed regenerating the initramfs:
dpkg-reconfigure -p low linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
But this haven't solved the problem at all.
I haven't seen bugreports or messages on the list about similar problem:
either it is a problem specific of my system or this weekend many user
has preferred to go the sea. ;-)
Have someone any suggestion?
Regards.
Cesare.
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-----[ MESSAGE 2 ]-----
Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> As you can see the modules to mount my ATA (not sata) drive are in
place. I have tryed to mount root manually:
> mount /dev/hda2 /
> but it fails.
I wrote / but i wanted to say /root.
The correct command:
mount /dev/hda2 /root
fails with this error:
cramfs: wrong magic
mount: Mounting /dev/hda2 on /root failed: Invalid argument
I have done some test and if i try to mount specifing the fs type (-t
ext3) it succeed and now if i type "exit" the system boot correctly.
So it seems to be a problem in udev that fails to mount the root
filesystem, probably in /scripts/local.
In the meantime i've learned that aptitude has a nice log and it
confirmed me that in the last update udev has passed from 0.88-2 to 0.89-1.
Since the problem is critical, i'll file a bug to udev immediately,
hoping that my considerations are correct.
But am i really the only with this problem?
Regards.
Cesare.
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