PLD Linux

geninitrd + lvm + initramfs = broken system

Bug #263149 reported by Patryk Zawadzki
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PLD Linux
Fix Released
Critical
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
Nominated for Th by Patryk Zawadzki

Bug Description

When copying devices, geninitrd does not check for links.

It's common to use /dev/vg-name/lv-name as root device which is a symlink to /dev/mapper/vg-name--lv-name.

It seems initramfs does not like symlinks (a filesystem limitation). geninitrd should try to readlink before copying the device node. Everything works fine with romfs.

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Patryk Zawadzki (patrys) wrote :

The problem was caused by missing directories on the destination filesystem. A patch was provided by Paweł Kwiatkowski. Fix commited to geninitrd repo, needs a new release in Th

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