mountall dies with SEGV without initramfs

[Scott Moser]

Binary package hint: mountall

I'm able to get past the immediate mountall failure if I boot with init=/bin/bash and then do something like:
  mount -t proc /proc /proc
  exec /sbin/init

That ends up booting, but then / is read-only.

I'm attaching a core file that I generated by booting with init=/bin/bash, then:
  mount -t proc /proc /proc
  mount -t tmpfs none /var/crash/
  echo "/var/crash/core" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
  umount /proc/
  ulimit -c unlimited
  exec /sbin/init

init dies, and gives a maintainence prompt. I extracted the core file from there, and moved it into /var/crash so 'apport mountall' would find it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 5 03:02:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mountall 2.3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic-pae
SourcePackage: mountall
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic-pae i686

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

apparently I didn't get the core attached in the bug report. here it is.