[Bug 2077490] Re: Error: out of memory while booting after installing the linux-firmware in proposed

[Juerg Haefliger]

Ah yes, initramfs-tools doesn't honor symlinks and dups the binaries :-(

firmware dir of orig initrd:
406M	firmware.orig/

firmware dir of de-duped initrd:
194M	firmware.dedup/

We might want to consider shipping an initramfs-hook script with the
firmware package that recreates the symlinks.

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Title:
  Error: out of memory while booting after installing the linux-firmware
  in proposed

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I found that there are some machines in cert lab can't boot after
  installing the linux-frimware in proposed with 6.8.0-40 kernel.

  After selecting booting with the 6.8.0-40 kernel, it shows error: out
  of memory on the screen then freeze.

  There aren't any journal logs available, since they froze at very
  early stage.

  Following are the machines got impacted for now
  https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/202306-31695/
  https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/202306-31696/

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