[Bug 2061140] Re: dropbear-initramfs package fails to install on Ubuntu 24.04 beta server

[Benjamin Drung]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 2059739 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2059739

I was able to reproduce the failure in a chroot and verify that this is
a duplicate of bug #2059739.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 2059739
   initramfs-tools 0.142ubuntu23 copies host /etc/passwd into initramfs

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Title:
  dropbear-initramfs package fails to install on Ubuntu 24.04 beta
  server

Status in dropbear package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  dropbear-initramfs seems to fail on not figuring out what the root
  device is. This applies both to  autoinstall and manual install and is
  observed on today's beta (ubuntu-24.04-beta-live-server-amd64.iso on
  2024-04-12)

  ubuntu at ubuntu-server:~$ sudo apt install dropbear-initramfs 
  [sudo] password for ubuntu: 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  dropbear-initramfs is already the newest version (2022.83-4).
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu24) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu24) ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-22-generic
  dropbear: WARNING: Couldn't find ~root, SSH login to initramfs won't work!
  E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dropbear failed with return 1.
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-22-generic 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
  needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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