Cannot boot usb live media: hardcoded paths to udevadm (2013.05.24 daily live)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Colin Watson | ||
cryptsetup (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
systemd (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Ubuntu Desktop images doesn't boot from USB and the user is dropped to a busybox prompt with the message : "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system"
On tty7 the following error is displayed "/init: line 7: /sbin/udevadm: not found"
both i386 and amd64 affected
not reproducible in virtualbox
not reproducible in dvdrom
TEST CASE:
1. Download Saucy desktop iso build >= 2013.05.24
2. Burn it to a USB stick:
$ sudo dd if=saucy-
(replace X by the letter corresponding to your stick - be careful to not write to your hard drive)
3. Boot from the stick
ACTUAL RESULT:
After a while, boot failed and the message "(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system" is displayed.
from casper/initrd.lz:
njin@njin:~/Ubuntu$ ls -l sbin
total 1920
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 31536 mag 25 13:29 blkid
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 1416 mag 25 13:29 brltty-setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 225152 mag 25 13:29 btrfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 46800 mag 25 13:29 cryptsetup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 21168 mag 25 13:29 dmraid
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 6822 mag 25 13:29 dmraid-activate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 67536 mag 25 13:29 dmsetup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 23072 mag 25 13:29 dumpe2fs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 175232 mag 25 13:29 fsck.btrfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 35384 mag 25 13:29 hwclock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 43888 mag 25 13:29 kpartx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 43584 mag 25 13:29 losetup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 914368 mag 25 13:29 lvm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 njin njin 9 mag 25 13:29 modprobe -> /bin/kmod
-rwsr-xr-x 1 njin njin 39704 mag 25 13:29 mount.cifs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 10240 mag 25 13:29 mount.fuse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 njin njin 12 mag 25 13:29 mount.ntfs -> /bin/ntfs-3g
lrwxrwxrwx 1 njin njin 12 mag 25 13:29 mount.ntfs-3g -> /bin/ntfs-3g
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 81632 mag 25 13:29 plymouthd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 njin njin 9 mag 25 13:29 rmmod -> /bin/kmod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 njin njin 3 mag 25 13:29 vgchange -> lvm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 njin njin 10560 mag 25 13:29 wait-for-root
original description:
I made the USB stick with USB startup creator in precise. Tested sha256sum and it checked out. When i rebooted into the USB stick i get following error message
Busybox v1.20.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.20.0-8ubuntu1) built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(Initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a lice file system.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in syslinux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Cannot boot live session 2013.05.24 daily live + Cannot boot live session |
tags: | added: saucy |
affects: | syslinux (Ubuntu) → casper (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- Cannot boot live session + Cannot boot live session [missed udevadm and udevd] |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Cannot boot live media [missed udevadm and udevd] (2013.05.24 daily + Cannot boot usb live media [missed udevadm and udevd] (2013.05.24 daily live) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in cryptsetup (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
summary: |
- Cannot boot usb live media: hardcoded path to udevadm (2013.05.24 daily + Cannot boot usb live media: hardcoded paths to udevadm (2013.05.24 daily live) |
Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here: iso.qa. ubuntu. com/qatracker/ reports/ bugs/1184066
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