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Author: David Hare
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To: aitor_czr
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Fwd: live-boot is marked for autoremoval from testing
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823856

Seems it's been reassigned to util-linux.. "'mount -o move' does not
work with virtual filesystems" That explains a lot.

Our minimal fixed /dev was enough that things still worked even if the
move failed.

On 9 May 2016 at 02:22, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
>>This sounds a bit like the problem we were having with Refracta when
>>util-linux got upgraded to 2.25. One of the fixes for that was to populate
>>/dev in filesystem.squashfs. I see that the solydxkee iso has an empty
>>/dev in the squashfs
>
> Yes.. a minimal static /dev, in exactly the same way that live-build
> does it, sorts that simply (It was not necessary for Wheezy).
>
> Why? You need to plumb the depths of util-linux, udev and busybox to
> work out what changed. It will probably have changed again before you
> get the answer. For now, the fix is simple.
>
> Autoremoval from "testing"? solydxkee is a Debian "derivative", it's
> up to them to sort it.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg00024.html
>
> There appear to be forces at work who want the debian-live project
> shut down and replaced with "something else".
>
> D
>
> On 8 May 2016 at 23:41, aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>> Hi Ozi,
>>
>> On 05/08/2016 07:18 AM, Ozi Traveller wrote:
>>
>> FYI !!!
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Debian testing autoremoval watch <noreply@???>
>> Date: Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:39 PM
>> Subject: live-boot is marked for autoremoval from testing
>> To: live-boot@???
>>
>>
>> live-boot 1:20151213 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2016-05-29
>>
>> It is affected by these RC bugs:
>> 823069: live-boot-initramfs-tools: Kernel panic while booting live with
>> Debian stretch busybox/live packages
>>
>>
>> The version of the kernel must be the same in all the parts of the iso
>> image, and the filesystem.squashfs file must include this *same* kernel if
>> you want to boot it in live mode.
>>
>> The following packages are also required for that:
>>
>> live-boot live-boot-initramfs-tools live-tools live-config
>> live-config-sysvinit
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Aitor.
>>
>>
>>
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