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initramfs-tools package

nfs root script breaks with absolute /sbin/init symlinks

Bug #1439955 reported by Lucas Gadani
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
initramfs-tools (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

The initramfs boot script try to mount the root filesystem into /root and look for a /sbin/init file inside that folder. systemd installs /sbin/init as a link to /lib/systemd/systemd, which the initramfs scripts can't find (because the link is an absolute path and the root is mounted under /root).

Making that link a relative path fixes the problem (i.e. making it ../lib/systemd/systemd).

Please, see /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs for the affected script.

I believe this should be fixed before the release of 15.04, as it breaks all nfs root installs.

Tags: systemd-boot
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This reminds me of bug 1351295. For the main "init" initramfs script and local partitions there is code to get along with absolute symlinks. I don't see any readlink in the nfs script, but I figure this is a related problem. I see the Debian package has a fix for this: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/initramfs-tools.git/commit/scripts/nfs?id=7bc24f829f

Would you mind testing this? I. e. please put the attached "nfs" script into /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/, revert /sbin/init to be an absolute link to /lib/systemd/systemd again, run "sudo update-initramfs -u", and check if booting now works?

Thanks!

affects: systemd (Ubuntu) → initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
summary: - systemd breaks nfs root on vivid
+ nfs root script breaks with absolute /sbin/init symlinks
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: systemd-boot
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Changed in initramfs-tools (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.103ubuntu14

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initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu14) vivid; urgency=medium

  * scripts/nfs: Fix nfs mount check for absolute /sbin/init symlink, to make
    root NFS work again. Cherry-picked from Debian (commit 7bc24f829f).
    (LP: #1439955)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:03:26 +0200

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Lucas Gadani (lgadani) wrote :

Sorry for the delay, I can confirm that the fix works.

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