[Yaird-devel] Bug#369965: yaird: Lots of errors about read only file system

[Rohan Dhruva]

Package: yaird
Version: 0.0.12-11
Severity: important

Hello,

I use debian sid. I am using yaird as my mkinitrd generator, which was working 
just fine. However, when initrd was recreated for the kernel upgrade to 2.6.16-2, 
I am getting very strange errors. The bootup sequence is a bit like :

Booting kernel bla .. (GRUB message, I think)
Switching root ..
Init version x.x Loaded..
/lib/init/mount-functions.sh : Permission denied, read only file system : 
/dev/null
(Repeat error some 5 times)
Contents of /proc will be hidden.
/lib/init/mount-functions.sh : Permission denied, read only file system :
/dev/null
(Repeat error some 5 times)
Contents of /sys will be hidden.

And then the boot continues normally, maybe it has exited the initrd environment 
by then. Those errors seem to have no effect on the system performance, but I have 
no idea how harmful they may be during the boot process. And face it, they look 
ugly ;) Also, the above sequence was reproduced from memory, if someone can tell 
me how to capture those messages in a file, I'd be more than happy to 
help. Unfortunately, I have no idea how this error cropped up, I have not changed 
any config files. Infact, I even did "dpkg -P --force-depends yaird && apt-get 
install yaird" to make sure that the maintainer's config files are used. 

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages yaird depends on:
ii  cpio                         2.6-12      GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  dash                         0.5.3-3     The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-11    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libhtml-template-perl        2.8-1       HTML::Template : A module for usin
ii  libparse-recdescent-perl     1.94.free-2 Generates recursive-descent parser
ii  perl                         5.8.8-4     Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

yaird recommends no packages.

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