[Bug 39261] Re: Produces broken image when udev is not installed

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[Expired for initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity
for 60 days.]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Produces broken image when udev is not installed

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  The following procedure casuses mkinitramfs to produce unusable
  initramfs mage:

  1. Clean installation of  ubuntu-server from dapper-flight-6 CD
  2. installation of metapackage ubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop using dselect. (Just pressing + on the corresponding metapackage and agreeing on everything else)

  
  The reason is dselect uninstalls udev, mdadm and lvm for some strange reason nad mkinitramfs cannot recover from missing  /sbin/mdadm, /sbin/vgsave, /sbin/lvm (or so) and produces an image unable to mount root. 
  (ext2 on /dev/hda2 in my case)

  xubuntu-desktop do not exhibit thes flaw, since the installation of it
  leaves udev and etc. untouched.

  Returning back the above mentioned packages and running dpkg-
  reconfigure on the kernel package fixes the problem. Need to be done
  from rescue CD.

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