mkinitramfs fails on Raspian 9 "Stretch"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Atempting to install kdump-tools fails due to error in mkinitramfs:
/usr/sbin/
mkinitramfs: failed to determine device for /
mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most, check:
grep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-
Error please report bug on initramfs-tools
Include the output of 'mount' and 'cat /proc/mounts'
From traces .... it seems it's getting tripped up because the root device specified in /proc/cmdline is in the form: root=PARTUUID=
I changed the boot command line to read: root=/dev/mmcblk0p2
and kdump-tools installed correctly.
Attaching output of /proc/mounts and mount for good measure.
root@raspberryp
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,
cgroup on /sys/fs/
cgroup on /sys/fs/
cgroup on /sys/fs/
cgroup on /sys/fs/
cgroup on /sys/fs/
cgroup on /sys/fs/
cgroup on /sys/fs/
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot type vfat (rw,relatime,
tmpfs on /run/user/1001 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,
root@raspberrypi:~# cat /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext4 rw,noatime,
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,
tmpfs /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs ro,nosuid,
cgroup /sys/fs/
cgroup /sys/fs/
cgroup /sys/fs/
cgroup /sys/fs/
cgroup /sys/fs/
cgroup /sys/fs/
cgroup /sys/fs/
systemd-1 /proc/sys/
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,relatime 0 0
sunrpc /run/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat rw,relatime,
tmpfs /run/user/1001 tmpfs rw,nosuid,