Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-26 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> songbird wrote: >> >>> # cpio -i -v < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae >>> kernel >>> kernel/x86 >>> kernel/x86/microcode >>> kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin >>> 22 blocks >>=20 >> Yeah, well, you have a multi-segment initramfs.

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/25/2015 at 11:01 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, at 17:16, songbird wrote: > >> # cpio -i -v < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae >> kernel >> kernel/x86 >> kernel/x86/microcode >> kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin >> 22 blocks > > Yeah, well, you have

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, at 17:16, songbird wrote: > # cpio -i -v < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin > 22 blocks Yeah, well, you have a multi-segment initramfs. There's an uncompressed cpio archive first with t

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: >Ric Moore wrote: ... >> Sorry I missed it, but what version of Debian does this occur on?? > > My system, which does not have the problem, is on current testing - > dist-upgraded just this afternoon. > > songbird is at least running initramfs-tools from testing (it's the same >

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/25/2015 at 05:36 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/25/2015 05:29 PM, songbird wrote: > >> The Wanderer wrote: >>> That's _very_ weird. If my experience is any guide, there should >>> be an entire root-like hierarchy in there; mine contains >>> >>> bin/ conf/ etc/ init lib/ lib64/ run/ sbin/ sc

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/25/2015 05:29 PM, songbird wrote: The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: The Wanderer wrote: songbird wrote: /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) So it's not compressed at all. Try cpio -i < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae to expand it (

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: >songbird wrote: >> The Wanderer wrote: >>> songbird wrote: > /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) >>> >>> So it's not compressed at all. >>> >>> Try >>> >>> cpio -i < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae >>> >>> to expand it (a

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/25/2015 at 04:16 PM, songbird wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> songbird wrote: >>> /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with >>> no CRC) >> >> So it's not compressed at all. >> >> Try >> >> cpio -i < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae >> >> to expand it (again

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: > songbird wrote: >> The Wanderer wrote: >>> songbird wrote: > doesn't work for me, hmm: =20 # gunzip - < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae | cpio -i =20 gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >>>=20 >>> What does >>>=20 >>> file /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/25/2015 at 02:50 PM, songbird wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> songbird wrote: >>> doesn't work for me, hmm: >>> >>> # gunzip - < /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae | cpio -i >>> >>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format >> >> What does >> >> file /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-686-pae >>

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
The Wanderer wrote: > songbird wrote: >> Mike Kupfer wrote: >>> songbird wrote: >>> how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the command given and didn't get it to work and so set it aside until i could read further docs today. >>> >>> I did >>> >>> $ su >>> # cd /root >>

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/25/2015 at 02:08 PM, songbird wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > >> songbird wrote: >> >>> how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the >>> command given and didn't get it to work and so set >>> it aside until i could read further docs today. >> >> I did >> >> $ su >> # cd /root >>

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
Mike Kupfer wrote: > songbird wrote: > >> how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the >> command given and didn't get it to work and so set >> it aside until i could read further docs today. > > I did > > $ su > # cd /root > # mkdir initrd > # cd initrd > > and then ran the pip

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
Michael Biebl wrote: > schrieb songbird: >> Mike Kupfer wrote: >>> The Wanderer wrote: >>> If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs /= > initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it= > contains. It may very well be missing either bi

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
songbird wrote: > how did you expand the initramfs? i tried the > command given and didn't get it to work and so set > it aside until i could read further docs today. I did $ su # cd /root # mkdir initrd # cd initrd and then ran the pipeline that The Wanderer gave. I think I

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.04.2015 um 15:00 schrieb songbird: > Mike Kupfer wrote: >> The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs / >>> initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it >>> contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or s

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-25 Thread songbird
Mike Kupfer wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs / >> initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it >> contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or some related >> thing. > > Indeed, it's missing b

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-24 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > If that doesn't help, then I'd advise that you expand the initramfs / > initrd file from under /boot into an empty directory, and see what it > contains. It may very well be missing either bin/touch or some related > thing. Indeed, it's missing bin/touch. Thanks for the det

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/23/2015 at 01:32 PM, songbird wrote: > songbird wrote: > >> Mike Kupfer wrote: >> >>> Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, >>> before lightdm started. The message was something like >>> >>> /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found >>> >>> After logging i

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-23 Thread Mike Kupfer
songbird wrote: > songbird wrote: > > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > >> Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before > >> lightdm started. The message was something like > >> > >> /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found > >> > >> After logging in, I tried using journa

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-23 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > >> Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before >> lightdm started. The message was something like >> >> /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found >> >> After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no >

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-21 Thread songbird
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before > lightdm started. The message was something like > > /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found > > After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no > success. Is journalctl

boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before lightdm started. The message was something like /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no success. Is journalctl the right tool to find the messa