[Bug 1070529] Re: update-initramfs stuck after quantal upgrade

[Anne van Rossum]

I encountered this bug on Upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10. I have my home
drive encrypted.

Solved by disabling FRAMEBUFFER=y in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-
hooks.d/cryptsetup

[code]
# This will setup non-us keyboards in early userspace,
# necessary for punching in passphrases.
KEYMAP=y

# force busybox on initramfs
BUSYBOX=y

# and for systems using plymouth instead, use the new option
#FRAMEBUFFER=y
[/code]

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Title:
  update-initramfs stuck after quantal upgrade

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

Bug description:
  Every call to update-initramfs ended stuck on the first line:

  # update-initramfs -u
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-18-generic
  [stuck here]

  Looking at the running processes gave me this:

  # ps aux | grep initram
  root     21065  0.0  0.0   4396   616 pts/8    S+   21:50   0:00 /bin/sh -e /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.5.0-18-lowlatency /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-18-lowlatency
  root     21067  0.0  0.0   4396   616 pts/8    S+   21:50   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -c -t -k 3.5.0-18-lowlatency -b /boot
  root     21069  3.0  0.0   4516   856 pts/8    S+   21:50   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-18-lowlatency.new 3.5.0-18-lowlatency
  root     26554  0.0  0.0   4396   772 pts/8    S+   21:50   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/framebuffer
  root     26653  0.0  0.0   4396   376 pts/8    S+   21:50   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/framebuffer
  root     26657  0.0  0.0   9444   936 pts/6    R+   21:50   0:00 grep --color=auto initram

  Suspecting that something was wrong with the FRAMEBUFFER option in
  initramfs, I removed the « FRAMEBUFFER=y » of my config file.

  Then, I was able to use again update-initramfs without getting stuck
  and to upgrade my kernel.

  Thanks.

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