[arch-dev-public] [signoff] util-linux 2.19-3

[Allan McRae]

On 23/02/11 04:43, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The util-linux-ng project has been renamed back to util-linux.
>
> Huge -1 on this one.
>
> I just hosed my system during an upgrade, trimmed log below. The
> explanation- when we do replaces in pacman, we do all of the removes
> upfront. This is by no means ideal, we should fix this, but it isn't
> happening tomorrow. So during this upgrade where both the kernel and
> util-linux are being installed, we have a period of time where the
> util-linux utilities are not on the system, we try to generate our
> initrd, and then we fail to locate the blkid binary. I didn't even see
> this until I rebooted and got dropped to a shell; thankfully the
> rootfstype parameter exists.
>
> I can guarantee we get bug reports if we let this situation make its
> way to core; I'm not sure what the solution is but this definitely
> doesn't work as is.
>
> -Dan
>
> [2011-02-22 11:53] Running 'pacman -Syu'
> [2011-02-22 11:53] synchronizing package lists
> [2011-02-22 11:53] starting full system upgrade
> [2011-02-22 11:53] removed util-linux-ng (2.18-4)
> .....
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  MKINITCPIO SETUP
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  ----------------
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  More information about mkinitcpio setup can be
> found here:
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio
> [2011-02-22 11:54]
> [2011-02-22 11:54]>>>  Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.
> Please wait...
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ==>  Building image "default"
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ==>  Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k
> 2.6.37-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Begin build
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [base]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] which: no blkid in (/sbin)
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ERROR: '/sbin/blkid' is not a file
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [udev]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [autodetect]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ERROR: Root file system type detection failed.
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [pata]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [scsi]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [sata]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [mdadm]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] Custom /etc/mdadm.conf file will be used in
> initramfs for assembling arrays.
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Generating module dependencies
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ==>  SUCCESS
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ==>  Building image "fallback"
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ==>  Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k
> 2.6.37-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S
> autodetect
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Begin build
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [base]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] which: no blkid in (/sbin)
> [2011-02-22 11:54] ERROR: '/sbin/blkid' is not a file
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [udev]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [pata]
> [2011-02-22 11:54] :: Parsing hook [scsi]
> [2011-02-22 11:55] :: Parsing hook [sata]
> [2011-02-22 11:55] :: Parsing hook [mdadm]
> [2011-02-22 11:55] Custom /etc/mdadm.conf file will be used in
> initramfs for assembling arrays.
> [2011-02-22 11:55] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
> [2011-02-22 11:55] :: Generating module dependencies
> [2011-02-22 11:55] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS
> [2011-02-22 11:55] ==>  SUCCESS
> [2011-02-22 11:55] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.37-6 ->  2.6.37.1-1)
> .....
> [2011-02-22 11:55] installed util-linux (2.19-3)
>

Ah...  this explains the problem I was dealing with on IRC yesterday... 
   I could not figure out what the hell was going on!

Allan