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Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs

From	Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs
Date	2025-04-10 22:30 +0200
Message-ID	<KA6H7-cAG4-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: debian-installer
Version: Trixie Alpha 1
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: cardboardaardvark@gmail.com, debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

When using rescue mode with a root file system that is btrfs the option to
launch a shell inside the root file system does not function. This is because
when the Debian installer created the btrfs file system it setup a subvolume
named rootfs and performed the install into it. When the file system is mounted
in rescue mode it is not mounted using the subvolume so /target has a directory
inside it named @rootfs and that directory is where the actual root file system
is.

In order to get a shell inside the root file system I use the following work
around:

1) Launch a shell inside the rescue environment
2) execute chroot /target/@rootfs /bin/bash --login

It's annoying but it works.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.21-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com> - 2025-04-10 22:30 +0200
  Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-04-11 03:30 +0200
    Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-04-11 06:30 +0200
      Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-04-21 18:50 +0200
        Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-04-21 20:00 +0200
          Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com> - 2025-04-21 20:10 +0200
          Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-04-21 21:10 +0200
        Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2025-04-21 21:10 +0200
          Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-04-22 12:30 +0200
            Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com> - 2025-04-22 19:40 +0200
              Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-04-22 22:00 +0200
          Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-04-22 23:00 +0200
    Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-04-17 13:00 +0200
      Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-04-18 03:50 +0200
        Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-04-18 17:50 +0200
          Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-04-23 00:00 +0200
    Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 01:30 +0200
      Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-04-18 15:50 +0200
        Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Tyler Riddle <cardboardaardvark@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 20:40 +0200
  Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> - 2025-04-19 14:30 +0200
  Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> - 2025-04-23 07:40 +0200
    Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-05-10 19:10 +0200
      Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> - 2025-05-10 19:30 +0200
        Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-05-10 23:00 +0200
        Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-05-11 02:00 +0200
          Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> - 2025-05-12 08:10 +0200
            Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-05-12 19:00 +0200
            Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-05-12 19:40 +0200
            Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2025-05-13 22:30 +0200
  Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2025-05-13 14:50 +0200
  Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-05-21 12:50 +0200
  Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-05-21 13:30 +0200
  Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2025-05-29 12:20 +0200
  Bug#1102604: rescue-mode: Provide rootfs subvolume selection menu Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2025-05-29 12:20 +0200

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