error initrd oem-repart

[Sébastien.]

Hi,

For an older application i need to generate obsolete debian stretch.

The generation of raw and iso install works but when i boot on virtual machine to test, I get this error message :

My config.xml : 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<image schemaversion="7.3" name="Debian-Stretch_appliance">
    <description type="system">
        <author>Marcus Schäfer</author>
        <contact>m...@suse.de</contact>
        <specification>Debian Stretch Appliance</specification>
    </description>
    <profiles>
        <profile name="Disk" description="Simple Disk image" import="true"/>
    </profiles>
    <preferences>
        <version>9.25.0</version>
        <packagemanager>apt</packagemanager>
        <locale>fr_FR</locale>
        <keytable>fr</keytable>
        <timezone>Europe/Paris</timezone>
    </preferences>
   <preferences profiles="Disk">
        <type image="oem" filesystem="ext4" firmware="efi" initrd_system="dracut" installiso="true" installboot="install" kernelcmdline="console=ttyS0" fscreateoptions="-O ^metadata_csum_seed">
            <bootloader name="grub2" console="serial" timeout="10"/>
            <oemconfig>
                <oem-swap>true</oem-swap>
                <oem-unattended>true</oem-unattended>
                <oem-device-filter>/dev/ram</oem-device-filter>
                <oem-multipath-scan>false</oem-multipath-scan>
            </oemconfig>
        </type>
    </preferences>
    <users>
        <user password="$1$wYJUgpM5$RXMMeASDc035eX.NbYWFl0" home="/root" name="root" groups="root"/>
    </users>
  <repository type="apt-deb" distribution="stable" repository_gpgcheck="false">
        <source path="file:///mnt/kiwi/debian"/>
    </repository>
    <repository type="apt-deb" distribution="stretch" components="main contrib" repository_gpgcheck="false">
       <source path="file:///mnt/debian/" />
</repository>
   <packages type="image">
        <package name="vim"/>
        <!--<package name="shim"/>-->
        <package name="grub-efi-amd64"/>
        <package name="dracut"/>
        <package name="dracut-network"/>
        <package name="dracut-core"/>
        <package name="dracut-config-generic"/>
        <package name="dracut-config-rescue"/>
        <package name="xz-utils"/>
        <package name="binutils"/>
        <package name="linux-image-amd64"/>
        <!--<package name="isolinux"/>
        <package name="syslinux"/>
        <package name="syslinux-common"/>-->
        <package name="init"/>
        <package name="gnupg"/>
        <package name="iproute2"/>
        <package name="iptables"/>
        <package name="iputils-ping"/>
        <package name="ifupdown"/>
        <!--<package name="isc-dhcp-client"/>-->
        <package name="netbase"/>
        <package name="bsdmainutils"/>
        <package name="console-setup"/>
        <package name="ncurses-base"/>
        <package name="ncurses-bin"/>
        <package name="base-files"/>
    </packages>
    <packages type="oem">
        <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-repart"/>
        <package name="dracut-kiwi-oem-dump"/>
<package name="dracut-kiwi-lib"/>
    </packages>
    <packages type="bootstrap">
     <package name="linux-image-amd64"/>
        <package name="grub2"/>
        <package name="apt-utils"/>
        <package name="libc-bin"/>
        <package name="tar"/>
        <package name="openrc"/>
        <package name="dpkg"/>
        <package name="bash"/>
    </packages>
</image>

debian packages kiwi : 

dracut-kiwi-lib_9.25.22-3.1_amd64

dracut-kiwi-oem-dump_9.25.22-3.1_amd64

dracut-kiwi-oem-repart_9.25.22-3.1_amd64

and i use a loop device with the last debian stretch iso

thanks for your help

[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

> For an older application i need to generate obsolete debian stretch.
> The generation of raw and iso install works but when i boot on virtual
> machine to test, I get this error message :
>

> Capture d’écran 2025-05-10 172057.png

The dracut code you installed (dracut-kiwi-lib_9.25.22-3.1_amd64.deb)
tries to created the service file at:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/dracut-run-interactive.service

I guess the distribution (debian stretch) has not yet done the move
to /usr and probably packaged all of systemd at "/lib/systemd/"
which can lead to the error you saw, because "/usr/lib/systemd"
does not exist.

In the current version of kiwi the service file is created at

/run/systemd/system/dracut-run-interactive.service

To debug the situation and check if the above makes sense or not
you can repeat the boot process and add:

rd.debug rd.shell

To the kernel command line. In case of an error you get dropped
to a debug shell and can check how things really looks like.

Regards,
Marcus
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[Sébastien FINET]

Thanks for the answsers

Look at the attachment file "boot.kiwi"

i have try to update dracut-kiwi-oem-repart , dump and lib but i have an error about checksum sha256 not found in /run/images/*.sha256 (issue close in github kiwi).

Regards,
Sébastien

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Sébastien FINET

[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

> Look at the attachment file "boot.kiwi"
> i have try to update dracut-kiwi-oem-repart , dump and lib but i have
> an error about checksum sha256 not found in /run/images/*.sha256 (issue
> close in github kiwi).

I could not see the mentioned checksum error in the attached boot.kiwi.
I saw the original error though

Regarding the checksum error I can imagine an inconsistency between
the dracut code and kiwi builder code. We recently dropped all md5
checksum code because md5 is obsolete. See here:

https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/pull/2699

So if you build the image make sure the version of kiwi fits with
the version of the dracut modules.

Hope this helps

[Sébastien FINET]

Boot.kiwi is with :

dracut-kiwi-lib_9.25.22-3.1_amd64
dracut-kiwi-oem-dump_9.25.22-3.1_amd64
dracut-kiwi-oem-repart_9.25.22-3.1_amd64
Kiwi 9.25.22

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[Sébastien FINET]

The error checksum is with 10.21.X.
The attachement is with 9.25.22 (kiwi + kiwi oem repart and dump)
You dont have an older debian packages who was in obs repo ?

[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

> The error checksum is with 10.21.X.
> The attachement is with 9.25.22 (kiwi + kiwi oem repart and dump)
> You dont have an older debian packages who was in obs repo ?

I do have:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Virtualization:Appliances:Builder:Deprecated

which provides an Ubuntu jammy build of an old v9 version.
But to be honest I do not maintain this version. It's deprecated.
We can certainly add another build target to this v9 buid, but I won't
have time to fix anything in this code path