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Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs
Date 2019-01-02 20:40 +0100
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Control: tag -1 unreproducible

On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 05:41 +0300, pavel piankov wrote:
> > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-3-amd64
> > cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> this is due 
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> line in /etc/mtab
> remove it and the problem no more.

/etc/mtab is supposed to be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.  I don't
know why it isn't on your system, but that's not a kernel bug.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer


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Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs pavel piankov <pavel.piankov@patentica.biz> - 2019-01-02 04:10 +0100
  Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve device rootfs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-01-02 20:40 +0100
    Processed: Re: Bug#916670: cryptsetup: ERROR: Couldn't resolve  device rootfs "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-01-02 20:40 +0100

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