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make-fai-nfsroot failes to create initramfs

Bug #137511 reported by glance on 2007-09-05

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fai (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: fai-server

In fai 3.2, update-initramfs is diverted and replaced by /bin/true, during the creation of the nfsroot (make-fai-nfsroot).

This is done so the initramfs doesn't needs to be regenerated for each packet that want it to be that way during install. In the end of this process the divert is removed and update-initramfs is explicitly run "update-initramfs -k all -t -u".

The problem with this is that it won't generate a initramfs because the statefiles for initramfs-tools is bork because that it didn't get created during the postinst-script for the kernel package.

This is a bug thats in the future, in a ubuntu perspective, because gutsy has fai 3.1.8 or something.

The quick&dirty way to fix this is to remove the divertion in make-fai-nfsroot, The right way to fix it is to ether patch initramfs-tools or to fiddle with the linux-image postinst-script.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/fai

Revision history for this message

Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2007-09-18:

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fai (3.2.1-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Sync New Upstream Version to ubuntu.
    - Exception Request granted in LP: #139637
    - Problems with update-initramfs fixed: LP: #137511
    - fai-setup works now LP: #89026
    - static ip problem fixed ages ago: LP: #69862
    - fix dependency breakage: LP: #93876
  * Upload to ubuntu with some small changes:
  * Turn the package from native to non-native, the orig tarball is identical
    to the tarball in debian.
  * bin/fai: check if /proc is mounted in the nfsroot. if it isn't mount it
  * conf/NFSROOT: deinstall upstart, use sysvinit instead
  * conf/NFSROOT: install linux-image-generic as kernel image. This is
    thankfully consistent on all ubuntu architectures. We can drop
    unionsfs modules as well, since we have them in the kernel package.
  * conf/make-fai-nfsroot.conf: use archive.ubuntu.com for bootstrap
  * conf/sources.list: use archive.ubuntu.com as sources.
  * conf/sources.list: use fai-team's PPA for live-initramfs packages

fai (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * mount swap partitions with identical priorities
  * fai-mirror: also match lowercase class names (for hostsnames),
    use $cfdir instead of fixed path /etc/fai
  * subroutines-linux: add timeout to nc call
  * subroutines: change message for faimond in task_faiend()
  * control: readd libapt-pkg-perl to depends, nfs-server (user space)
    does not support locking, so FAI cannot use it, remove wget, add arch
    to mknbi
  * get-config-dir-svn: add svn+ssh support
  * QUESTIONNAIRE: add USB stick, split bootb and dhcp
  * faimond, faimond.8: use Proc::Daemon, add options tTldP
  * faimond: do not allow ; in message (security), do not print ip and
    port number
  * make-fai-nfsroot: add option -U, do not divert update-initramfs (added
    because of a Ubuntu bug), activate -U if Ubuntu is detected
    determine the arch inside the nfsroot for defining a class, this help
    building amd64 nfsroots on i386 and vice versa,
    add support for running hooks, (closes: #342467)
  * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: add variable NFSROOT_HOOKS
  * make-fai-nfsroot.9: add info about NFSROOT_HOOKS
  * fai-mirror.8, make-fai-nfsroot.8: enhance/add info of -C, add info
    about variable FAI_ETC_DIR
  * packages_config/DEFAULT: fix typos in linux-image-amd64
  * fai-chboot,fai-chboot.8: add option -C and support for $FAI_ETC_DIR
  * savelog.LAST.source: add ignore pattern
  * packages_config/FAIBASE: add fai-client
  * fai-do-scripts: exit with maximum error code of all child scripts that
    had an error
  * fai: change message when stamp file already exists (closes: #441437)
  * fai-cd: remove arch specific path
  * fai-cd.8: add info about USB stick (closes: #441988),
    improve man page (closes: #441991)
  * new get-config-dir-git: add method git for access (closes: #441992)
  * examples/etc/dhcpd.conf: fix path
  * faimond-gui: new tool that produces graphical output of faimond
  * faimond-gui.8: new man page
  * get-config-dir-svn: fix svn+ssh with username (Closes: #442021)
  * fai-guide.sgml: add info about NFSROOT_HOOKS

fai (3.2) unstable; urgency=low

* subroutines-linux: fix extra slash in path (closes: #428860),
...

fai (3.2.1-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

fai (3.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

fai (3.2) unstable; urgency=low

* subroutines-linux: fix extra slash in path (closes: #428860),
    jobsrunning(): ignore rcS process (closes: #425725)
    during dirinstall call debootstrap if no base.tgz is found
  * setup_harddisks: fix file system type of /proc
  * fai.conf: make ssh and scp the default (closes: #309678, #380085)
  * fai-guide.sgml:
    major update to reflect FAI 3.X changes (closes: #390508),
    fix description of classes used (closes: #329984),
    change /usr/share/doc/fai to /usr/share/doc/fai-doc (closes: #387541),
    fix an url, add documentation for dirinstall (closes: #390508),
    document usage of basefiles/ (closes: #391660),
    document the order hooks are called (closes: #380337)
  * get-config-dir-svn: add support for svn url's without username
    (closes: #415875)
  * subroutines: copy disk_var.sh only if available (closes: #415880),
    fix wrong path for FAI_CLASSES
  * savelog.LAST.source: add more patterns
  * faimond: add options -p, -h, -b,
    it can now call fai-boot (closes: #342477, #424608)
  * faimond.1: update man pages to reflect the new options
  * fai-savelog: use $LOGREMOTEDIR when saving to remote
    (closes: #290371), do not set $HOSTNAME, should be set all the time
    (closes: #429553, #429733)
  * make-fai-nfsroot: add option -p (closes: #359323), move from
    fai-kernels to plain Debian kernel using initrd (closes: #410940),
    remove unused things since we have now write access to the nfsroot,
    use mkdir -p, live-initramfs needs NFSROOT in .../live/filesystem.dir,
    move creating of subdirs from make-fai-nfsroot to fai (from server to
    client), do not create shell script in make-fai-nfsroot,
    remove -V, use aptitude to remove the kernels from the nfsroot, -k now
    reinstalls all packages from /etc/fai/NFSROOT (closes: #431613),
    update-initramfs symlinks to /bin/true during diversion
  * make-fai-nfsroot.conf:
    remove the variable KERNELPACKAGE (closes: #416531, #435098)
  * make-fai-nfsroot.8: remove -V, new description for -K and -k
  * fcopy: set mode on file even no file was copied (closes: #360184),
    check error code of preinst and postinst scripts (closes: #432681),
    add quotes to variable (closes: #430127), skip comment lines in
    file-modes
  * fai-chboot: $NFSROOT is defined in new location (closes: #408247),
    add initrd support, add option -s (closes: #356380), remove nfs
    options from append line
  * fai-chboot.8: ROOTFS parameter is not needed any more, add option -s
  * device2grub: fix pattern to support /dev/cciss and /dev/ida devices
    (closes: #416381)
  * conf/NFSROOT: add packages needed for new fai-cd technique, add plain
    debian kernel package, add ext2resize, hwinfo and change arch specific
    packages,
    move packages cfengine2 and libapt-pkg-perl from control to NFSROOT
  * control: change dependencies from tetex to tetex or texlive, replace
    Recommends of rsh-server with ssh (closes: #426093), add aptitude for
    fai-server as Suggests, remove fai-kernels, add field XS-Vcs-Browser,
    syslinux is only available on two architectures, do not depend on
    cfengine (v1), since it does not exists any more
  * fai: do not remount / read only, do not call create_ramdisk, now we
    use unionfs, remove HOST variable, only use HOSTNAME now, use mkdir
    -p, export $action for 20hwdetect.source, call save_dmesg only during
    initial installation, during dirinstall set
    LOGDIR=/var/log/fai/dirinstall/$HOSTNAME (closes: #429553)
    define FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP, FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for dirinstall
    create syslog.conf before starting the syslog daemon
    when doing dirinstall -c or -N must be specified (closes: #429554)
    the local hard disks are now mounted to /target instead of /tmp/target
  * move from mkinitrd-cd to live-initramfs to create a CD, use plain
    Debian kernel
  * menu.lst: remove unneeded options, add boot=live for new initrd,
    remove root (cd), fix setting of hostname, instead of using ip=, we
    now use hostname=
  * create_resolv_conf: fix path, since we can now write on the whole
    filesystem
  * fai-cd: use plain Debian kernel with initrd and live-initramfs for
    booting (closes: #401041),
    add option -f, force removal of an existing ISO image
    add option -k, this is for debugging
    add option -n, do not create ISO image
    add option -u, copy fai-cd data to a directory (USB support)
    use $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir
  * disk-info: do not include removable devices into list of disks
  * fai-class: remove HOST variable, only use HOSTNAME now
    do not set HOSTNAME from uname (closes: #431283)
  * multiple files: add some patches fixing english text
    (closes: #428857, #428858)
  * 20-removable_media: fix path for floppy mount point (closes: #428859)
  * fai.8: add option -u, --hostname (closes: #361559)
  * add variable TFTPROOT (closes: #408271, #431431)
  * fai-mirror:
    use $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir
    do not ask questions, add unauthenticated packages to the mirror
  * 20hwdetect.source: do not execute 20hwdetect.source during dirinstall
  * debconf/FAIBASE: autodetect most xorg parameters, (but not resolution)
  * install_packages: add option -N, change option -t to -n,
    add patch that AptPkg module is only used when
    available and target system is Debian (closes: #422225), move code to
    check_aptpkg(), add smart package manager support (closes: #430798)
    do execute Debian specific commands only when needed (closes: #392038),
    grab error codes when executing commands,
    exit with 3 when errors occured, add option -H (closes: #391659),
    put suffix -internal to all internal commands,
    remove -n from tasksel calls
    print path once, then only config file names, not always full path
  * install_packages.8: add option -N and -H, change option -t to -n,
    add option -p (closes: #424848)
  * create_ramdisk: replaced by unionfs
  * fai-do-scripts: remove -k from cfagent call (closes: #425699),
    add new strings for shell scripts (closes: #416616)
  * fai-server.post*: do not manage $TFTPROOT (closes: #430000)
  * package_config: move linux-image package from FAIBASE to DEFAULT, add
    kernel name for architecture
  * ainsl: escape + in pattern
  * make S01fai-abort an init.d script

-- Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>   Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:36:43 +0200

Changed in fai:
status:	New → Fix Released

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