dracut fails to create initramfs, "Failed to install /lib64/libnss_files*"

[Tessa]

On a fresh install on Ubuntu 11.10, dracut fails to create a new initramfs:

dracut-update-initramfs -c -v -k `uname -r`
[...]
E: Failed to install /lib64/libnss_files*

This comes from the bottom of /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/95udev-rules/install:

if ldd $(find_binary udevd) |grep -q /lib64/; then
    dracut_install /lib64/libnss_files*
else
    dracut_install /lib/libnss_files*
fi

This check appears to be incorrect:

ldd /sbin/udevd
 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff15bfd000)
 libselinux.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007f7a8f0bd000)
 librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7a8eeb5000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7a8eb15000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7a8e911000)
 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7a8f525000)
 libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7a8e6f4000)

The libraries it's trying to copy are in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/, not /lib64/. This may be a result of the new multiarch support in 110.10. The following fixes the problem in the short term, but the dracut scripts should be patched to understand multiarch:

cd /lib64/
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* ./

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dracut 005-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 26 13:58:03 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dracut
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-25 (1 days ago)

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This has been fixed between 2011 and 2023.