Bug#992502: initramfs-tools: upgrade buster/bullseye fails; wrong path in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/growroot for udevadm

[Josef Dean Butler]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.140
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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* What led up to the situation?
During the upgrade from buster to bullseye dpkg failed to init the RAM fs. dpkg --configure -a always led to the same output:
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64.
(Reading database ... 51840 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64_5.10.46-4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 (5.10.46-4) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-amd64_5.10.46-4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-amd64 (5.10.46-4) ...
Setting up linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 (5.10.46-4) ...
I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64
I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64
I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/growroot failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64 with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 (--configure):
installed linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-amd64:
linux-image-amd64 depends on linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 (= 5.10.46-4); however:
Package linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 is not configured yet.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

Since the kernel panicked during reboot I had to boot an emergency environment. I mounted my drives and chrooted into them. I checked, if enough space was available on the SSD. I tried to re-install initramfs-tools and the kernel. None helped. A friend discovered that the path for udevadm was wrong in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/growroot
. We changed it from /sbin/udevadm to /bin/udevadm and then dpkg --configure -a worked wirhout errors and the new kernel was installed. A reboot brought back the system to live.

* What was the outcome of this action?
Changing the path for udevadm solved the issue completely. dpkg --configure -a worked again and I could boot just fine.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40M Aug 18 12:10 /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64 root=UUID=f0d38115-f203-4f55-84f3-5b92a6ecf52e ro nomodeset consoleblank=0 elevator=noop

-- resume

-- /proc/filesystems
btrfs
ext3
ext2
ext4
fuseblk
squashfs

-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
nfnetlink 16384 0
bluetooth 737280 0
jitterentropy_rng 16384 1
drbg 40960 1
ansi_cprng 16384 0
ecdh_generic 16384 1 bluetooth
rfkill 28672 2 bluetooth
ecc 36864 1 ecdh_generic
binfmt_misc 24576 1
squashfs 69632 3
loop 36864 6
intel_rapl_msr 20480 0
intel_rapl_common 28672 1 intel_rapl_msr
nfit 77824 0
libnvdimm 196608 1 nfit
ghash_clmulni_intel 16384 0
aesni_intel 368640 0
libaes 16384 2 bluetooth,aesni_intel
crypto_simd 16384 1 aesni_intel
cryptd 24576 2 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel
glue_helper 16384 1 aesni_intel
drm_vram_helper 20480 0
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 drm_vram_helper
ttm 114688 2 drm_vram_helper,drm_ttm_helper
evdev 28672 2
joydev 28672 0
serio_raw 20480 0
virtio_console 40960 1
virtio_balloon 24576 0
button 24576 0
drm_kms_helper 274432 1 drm_vram_helper
sg 36864 0
qemu_fw_cfg 20480 0
cec 61440 1 drm_kms_helper
drm 618496 4 drm_kms_helper,drm_vram_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm
fuse 167936 1
configfs 57344 1
ip_tables 32768 0
x_tables 53248 1 ip_tables
autofs4 53248 2
ext4 921600 2
crc16 16384 2 bluetooth,ext4
mbcache 16384 1 ext4
jbd2 151552 1 ext4
btrfs 1564672 0
blake2b_generic 20480 0
raid10 65536 0
raid456 180224 0
async_raid6_recov 24576 1 raid456
async_memcpy 20480 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_pq 20480 2 raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_xor 20480 3 async_pq,raid456,async_raid6_recov
async_tx 20480 5 async_pq,async_memcpy,async_xor,raid456,async_raid6_recov
xor 24576 2 async_xor,btrfs
raid6_pq 122880 4 async_pq,btrfs,raid456,async_raid6_recov
libcrc32c 16384 2 btrfs,raid456
crc32c_generic 16384 0
raid1 53248 0
raid0 24576 0
multipath 20480 0
linear 20480 0
md_mod 184320 6 raid1,raid10,raid0,linear,raid456,multipath
hid_generic 16384 0
usbhid 65536 0
hid 147456 2 usbhid,hid_generic
sr_mod 28672 0
cdrom 73728 1 sr_mod
ata_generic 16384 0
sd_mod 61440 3
t10_pi 16384 1 sd_mod
crc_t10dif 20480 1 t10_pi
crct10dif_generic 16384 0
virtio_net 57344 0
net_failover 24576 1 virtio_net
failover 16384 1 net_failover
virtio_scsi 24576 2
xhci_pci 20480 0
xhci_hcd 307200 1 xhci_pci
crct10dif_pclmul 16384 1
crct10dif_common 16384 3 crct10dif_generic,crc_t10dif,crct10dif_pclmul
ata_piix 36864 0
crc32_pclmul 16384 0
psmouse 184320 0
crc32c_intel 24576 5
libata 290816 2 ata_piix,ata_generic
usbcore 323584 3 xhci_hcd,usbhid,xhci_pci
scsi_mod 262144 5 virtio_scsi,sd_mod,libata,sg,sr_mod
usb_common 16384 2 xhci_hcd,usbcore
virtio_pci 28672 0
virtio_ring 36864 5 virtio_console,virtio_balloon,virtio_scsi,virtio_pci,virtio_net
virtio 16384 5 virtio_console,virtio_balloon,virtio_scsi,virtio_pci,virtio_net
i2c_piix4 28672 0
floppy 90112 0

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=auto
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto
RUNSIZE=10%
FSTYPE=auto

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no

-- /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
unused devices: <none>

-- mkinitramfs hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/:

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks:
amd64_microcode
btrfs
dmsetup
fsck
fuse
growroot
growroot~
intel_microcode
keymap
klibc-utils
kmod
lvm2
mdadm
resume
thermal
udev
xfs
zz-busybox


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii initramfs-tools-core 0.140
ii linux-base 4.6

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii bash-completion 1:2.11-2

-- no debconf information

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Control: reassign -1 cloud-initramfs-growroot 0.18.debian8

The hook is shipped by the cloud-initramfs-growroot package, so
reassigning there.

Regards,
Salvatore

[Philipp Hahn]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:24:36 +0200 Josef Dean Butler <jd...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.140
> Severity: important

...
> Setting up linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 (5.10.46-4) ...
> I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64
> I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
> I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64
> I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
> E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/growroot failed with return 1.

Probably fixed upstream:

> 240 cloud-initramfs-tools (0.19ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low
> 241
> 242 * cloud-initramfs-growroot: support growpart exit status of '1'
> 243 indicating "no-change-necessary"

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