FS#69727 - mkinitcpio v.30 and boot failure

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Francesco Alesii (francesco_archlinux) - Sunday, 21 February 2021, 10:17 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Sunday, 21 February 2021, 10:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I had a critical issue with "mkinitcpio 30-1".
After this morning "pacman -Syu", I got the following message logged:
> initramfs: unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed archive
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)


I know the issue was caused by my LTS Kernel update settings, because I was using the release 5.4.89-1-LTS with the configuration in /etc/pacman.conf "IgnorePkg = linux-lts linux-lts-headers".
On the other side, I think it should NOT be allowed the update from "mkinitcpio 29-1" to "mkinitcpio 30-1" without satisfying the condition "KERNEL Version >= 5.9".


I had the chance to have a second updated KERNEL installed ( linux 5.10.16.arch1-1 ), so I was able to fix the issue quite quickly, ...but can you imagine fixing the issue without a second updated KERNEL?


Any questions, please, let me know.

Thanks and best regards,
Francesco


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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Sunday, 21 February 2021, 10:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
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