Comment 4 for bug 31126

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 31126] Re: Kernel panic after installation of linux-386 [Dapper]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:23:49AM -0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Actually, Matt, it's a longstanding bug in initramfs-tools (and one I
> refuse to let myself forget to fix before dapper) that initramfs-tools
> doesn't have much in the way of useful error conditions, and certainly
> doesn't fail it if runs out of space. This bug if very real (and very
> annoying, and very getting fixed next week, with several other "Eek,
> initramfs-tools is broken in weird ways, but we never noticed until now"
> bugs.

I see; so the kernel is dutifully paying attention to error returns from
initramfs-tools...which it doesn't provide. ;-)

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 - mdz