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amaro

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Registered: 2022-02-08

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[SOLVED] upgrade produces initramfs-tools errors

Hello everybody!

during system upgrade got this mesage

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-686-pae
W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

trying to install 'zstd' got this one

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-686-pae
live-boot: core filesystems dm-verityE: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-686-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

any help is appreciated!
thank you in advance!

Edit: did some goooooogling but still no result

# dpkg -C
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time.  The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
 initramfs-tools      generic modular initramfs generator (automation)

# dpkg --configure initramfs-tools
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-9-686-pae
live-boot: core filesystems dm-verityE: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-9-686-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools

# apt install --reinstall -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" initramfs-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for initramfs-tools:i386

Last edited by amaro (2022-09-10 06:29:10)

aitor

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Re: [SOLVED] upgrade produces initramfs-tools errors

Hello everybody!

during system upgrade got this mesage

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-686-pae
W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

trying to install 'zstd' got this one

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-686-pae
live-boot: core filesystems dm-verityE: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-16-686-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

any help is appreciated!
thank you in advance!

The part concerning to dm-verity in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live should be as follows:

# dm-verity support
if [ "${DISABLE_DM_VERITY:-}" != "true" ] && [ "${DISABLE_DM_VERITY:-}" != "yes" ]
then
	[ "${QUIET}" ] || echo -n " dm-verity"
	manual_add_modules dm-verity
	# The BusyBox mount does not support dm-verity so we use the util-linux version.
	copy_exec /bin/mount
fi

The problem arises trying to copy the mount binary, which is located at /bin instead of /usr/bin. So, the line:

copy_exec /usr/bin/mount /bin

must be replaced with:

copy_exec /bin/mount

in live-boot-initramfs-tools

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amaro

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Registered: 2022-02-08

Posts: 88  

Re: [SOLVED] upgrade produces initramfs-tools errors

thank you, aitor!
editing '/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live' solved it.