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Auteur: Bruce Perens
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Aan: Florian Zieboll
CC: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] kernel-update: initramfs fails to find swap
Isn't this one of the things the "dracut" alternative to initramfs-tools
was intended to fix?

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 12:42 PM Florian Zieboll via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:20:56 +0100
> Florian Zieboll via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 20:29:39 +0100
> > aitor <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
> >
> > > If the name swap happens randomly, then the required setting might
> > > be:
> > >
> > > RESUME=none
> > >
> > > instead of:
> > >
> > > resume=UUID=<correct UUID here>
> > >
> > > in your /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Aitor
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you Aitor, that was the crucial hint, the 'RESUME' variable is
> > upper case... of course: an environment variable! So my system boots
> > fine and fast again and also suspend/resume works.
> >
> > Still, when I have the 'RESUME' variable defined correctly in
> > '/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume', 'update-initramfs -u' does not
> > return anything but
> >
> > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-11-amd64
> >
> > while with the lowercase spelling (as well as with an empty config),
> > it additionally returns the (also formerly quoted) info lines
> >
> > I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb1
> > I: (UUID=a743df91-ac0a-419b-95e7-5c266447e543)
> > I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
> >
> > but this "attempt" then fails for some reason, although the initramfs
> > should have the correct info (and IIRC should just try the first
> > available swap partition anyway.)
> >
> > Thanks again and libre Grüße,
> > Florian
>
>
>
> PS: Also the reason for the (temporarily) not persistent block device
>     names is still absolutely unclear to me.

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