Bug#923165: initramfs: reboot in panic function does not work

From	Michael Niewöhner <linux@mniewoehner.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#923165: initramfs: reboot in panic function does not work
Date	2019-02-24 17:40 +0100
Message-ID	<xv4YP-71a-47@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.133
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The panic()-function in /scripts/function tries to reboot the system.
When this fails, a kernel panic is generated by exiting PID 1.

At least for me, the reboot always fails. AFAIK "reboot" would not work at all
because there is no reboot handler at this stage...

Patch:

--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -47,3 +47,3 @@ panic()
 		sleep "${panic}"
-		reboot
+		reboot -f
 		exit  # in case reboot fails, force kernel panic

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Bug#923165: initramfs: reboot in panic function does not work Michael Niewöhner <linux@mniewoehner.de> - 2019-02-24 17:40 +0100
  Bug#923165: marked as done (initramfs: reboot in panic function  does not work) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2019-07-28 03:00 +0200

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