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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1482810 Title: dropbear DEVICE variable is ignored when sourced from conf.d Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 1) this is what "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/init" does: ``` . /conf/initramfs.conf for conf in conf/conf.d/*; do [ -f ${conf} ] && . ${conf} done . /scripts/functions ``` 2) this is what "/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/dropbear" does: ``` . /scripts/functions . /conf/initramfs.conf configure_networking & ``` 3) bug result: ```configure_networking ``` will not find a $DEVICE variable if the $DEVICE variable is overriden from some ```/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/user-file``` 4) I would hope this be somehow enforced for all scripts? ### lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 ### apt-cache policy initramfs-tools initramfs-tools: Installed: 0.103ubuntu4.2 Candidate: 0.103ubuntu4.2 Version table: *** 0.103ubuntu4.2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.103ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1482810/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp