Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/50] 5.4.40-rc1 review

[shuah]

On 5/11/20 11:21 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:35 -0600, shuah wrote:
> > On 5/8/20 6:35 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.40 release.
> > > There are 50 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Sun, 10 May 2020 12:29:44 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.40-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > Compiled and booted on my test system. I am seeing the following
> > regression in dmesg and with a new emergency message.
> >
> > Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed
> >
> > I don't know why yet. I will debug and let you know.
>
> At a guess: you upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and the default initramfs
> compression changed to lz4.  Or something like that.

Right, I remembered I ran into a similar problem after upgrading to
19.10 and went looking for info. instead of doing bisect.

That is what I found in the following thread:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1835660

Oddly it started showing up before I upgraded on Ubuntu 19.10.

thanks,
-- Shuah

thanks,
-- Shuah