How do i change permissions for initramfs.conf

[Bashing-om]

still here and now this has turned into a learning thing for me also.

[matt_symes]

Hi

update-initramfs and mkinitramfs are both scripts.

What they do is copy kernel modules, copy and run other scripts stored in other directories and hooks and a number of other things and then generate a compressed archive.

This archive is the initrd file that becomes the early root filing system.

Building cpio /boot/.....

From what you posted earlier it seems to be getting far enough to generate the cpio (this is the archive).

The files are copied into the directory /tmp and the cpio archive is generated and then rename in your /boot directory.

From mkinitramfs

[ "${verbose}" = y ] && echo "Building cpio ${outfile} initramfs"
(
# work around lack of "set -o pipefail" for the following pipe:
# cd "${DESTDIR}" && find . | cpio --quiet -R 0:0 -o -H newc | gzip >"${outfile}" || exit 1
exec 3>&1
eval `  
        # http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/cus-faq-2.html
        exec 4>&1 >&3 3>&-
        cd  "${DESTDIR}"
        {
                find . 4>&-; echo "ec1=$?;" >&4
        } | {   
                cpio --quiet -R 0:0 -o -H newc 4>&-; echo "ec2=$?;" >&4
        } | ${compress} >"${outfile}"
        echo "ec3=$?;" >&4
`
<snip>
if [ -s "${__TMPCPIOGZ}" ]; then
        cat "${__TMPCPIOGZ}" >>"${outfile}" || exit 1
fi

I'm wondering if something odd is happening around here for some reason.

Can you post the output of

ls /tmp/mkinitramfs_*

find /tmp/mkinitramfs_* ! -type d -exec ls -lh {} \; > ~/tmp.txt

This second command will produce a file in your home directory called tmp.txt. Please post that as an attachment to your next post.

df -h

mount

which cpio

which lzma

sudo du -csh /tmp

ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools

and finally

ls /boot/initrd*

Let's see if we can work out what is going on.

when i installed Lubuntu i had issues with mounting my harddrive and had to input a code to create the folder for it to beable to mount idk if their is any other folders i might happen to be missing wich might be the cause of all my woes

Can you explain exactly what you did here please.

Kind regards

[Darkishjace]

k so heres the first part wich looks like a huge problem to me

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /tmp/mkinitramfs_*  
ls: cannot access /tmp/mkinitramfs_*: No such file or directory 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ find /tmp/mkinitramfs_* ! -type d -exec ls -lh {} \; > ~/tmp.txt 
find: `/tmp/mkinitramfs_*': No such file or directory 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$

[Darkishjace]

the answer to your question highlighted by my quote is i used the mkdir command to make media/lubuntu (i think that was the one) and it fixed my problem with being unable to load any of the other drives i had dvd/1tb harddrive and various flash drives

the drive i have my lubuntu operating system on is a 8gb kingston flashdrive

[Darkishjace]

heres the second one

 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ dh -h dh: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat 
dh: This package will soon FTBFS; time to fix it! 
Usage: dh [options] 


  dh is a part of debhelper. See debhelper(7) 
  and dh(1) for complete usage instructions. 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ mount 
/cow on / type overlayfs (rw) 
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) 
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) 
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) 
/dev/sdb1 on /cdrom type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) 
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (ro,noatime) 
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) 
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) 
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) 
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) 
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) 
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) 
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) 
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) 
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/lubuntu/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=lubuntu) 
/dev/sr0 on /media/lubuntu/WNDA3100v2 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=999,gid=999,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500,uhelper=udisks2) 
/dev/sda1 on /media/lubuntu/1.0 TB Hard Disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ which cpio 
/bin/cpio 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ which lzma 
/usr/bin/lzma 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo du -csh /tmp 
16K	/tmp 
16K	total 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools 
3.5.0-17-generic  3.5.0-26-generic 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /boot/initrd* 
/boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic  /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-26-generic 
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$

[Darkishjace]

now i have no clue exactly how to add a attachment to this forum matter but when i open with both abiword and leafpad
tmp.txt comes up empty i dont know if im using the wrong program to read it or if its supposed to be empty or if by chance nothing is writing in it
also that process that was running was hanging up until now till i accidentally clicked close tab instead of clicking copy to show the last line here
-.- i feel like an idiot

[Bashing-om]

Darkishjace; I am back.

This has progressed beyond my level of comprehension. I do not know what Matt is looking for exactly. But to ease your mind;

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /tmp/mkinitramfs_*
ls: cannot access /tmp/mkinitramfs_*: No such file or directory

Those files do not exist either on my system and is the reason that tmp.txt is not written to.
Await Matt's advise on if "mkinitramfs" files are removed upon completion of the scripts, or perhaps looking in the wrong directory ? IDK !

awaiting to learn

[Darkishjace]

k and im also back

[Bashing-om]

Never mind, my thought was miss directed, back to studying this situation.

[Darkishjace]

u find wich the problem might infact be