Filesystem checking scripts require dependencies from outside of the initrd image.

[Matt T. Proud]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

My Hardy development environment is run in QEMU. After updating the image about a week ago, I booted it today to discover filesystem errors---no big deal. The problem is that the initrd image scripts that handle tainted filesystems require external dependencies from outside of the initrd. This causes the initrd to not ask the user for root password for maintenance mode; in fact, it appears to abort due to this.

I noted this with 2.6.24-2 and 2.6.24-3 kernels.

Attached are three screenshots.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.