Issue with last darcut and linux

bvbfan

sudo pacman -S dracut
1/1) Updating initramfs with dracut
:: Building initramfs for linux-6.19.12-1
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-battery-check' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-pcrextend' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-battery-check' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
dracut[E]: Module 'systemd-pcrextend' depends on module 'systemd', which can't be installed
:: Building initramfs for linux-fallback

bvbfan

cat /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-install
#!/bin/bash

KERNEL_VERSION=6.19.12-1

echo ":: Building initramfs for linux-${KERNEL_VERSION}"
dracut -f --no-hostonly-cmdline --omit "systemd dracut-systemd" "/boot/initramfs-linux.img" --kver ${KERNEL_VERSION}
echo ":: Building initramfs for linux-fallback"
dracut -f --no-hostonly --no-hostonly-cmdline "/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img" --kver ${KERNEL_VERSION}

We still use systemd right?

smallbison

sudo dracut -f --no-hostonly-cmdline "/boot/initramfs-linux.img" --kver 6.19.12-1
solved the problem for me, now the system is again bootable

demm

Dracut image creation no longer uses (or needs) the systemd modules, that was already tested with the ISO, and has been tested for about 6 weeks on installed system. The warning you see is just Dracut trying to include a few system modules modules, that need all of systemd. Issue for those warnings is fixed in git (needed to be added to the --omit section). It has no relevance to boot issues.
https://codeberg.org/KaOS/core/commit/d4d0c06e6419f7e65173e8e467e390b9c7d6160d
smallbison Did you have an issue after the update? What kernel in use? There was a problem with latest linux-firmware, that caused a broken pipe error, when Dracut was creating multiple kernel images during the same update as linux firmware. First image had no issue (usually just linux itself), but to see if you had an issue, your pacman.log from the last week is needed.

smallbison

demm
I had a problem with the encrypted drive, after the reboot it was not asking anymore for the password to decrypt.
I did a chroot and gave that command to rebuild the initramfs, now is fine.

demm

smallbison That is a concern, and needs to be fixed, the move away from systemd will happen, so starting with Dracut is a necessary step. It looks like not using systemd will require to add an encrypt module (not systemd based).

demm

@smallbison If you are willing to help to properly convert to support encryption without systemd, it would be nice if you could post the output of lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep crypt from your manually created image.

To help even further, make sure to have a second kernel installed (linux-next):
https://kaosx.us/kernels/
For that second kernel add one module to to the used dracut call (--add "crypt"):

dracut -v -f --no-hostonly-cmdline --add "crypt" --omit "systemd dracut-systemd systemd-battery-check systemd-pcrextend" "/boot/initramfs-linux-next.img" --kver ${KERNEL_VERSION}

And again post the grep line from that created image, see if the needed encrypt files are then included. Saver to add an extra kernel, so ther eis no need to chroot, keep the linux kernel created with systemd until the ebcrypt issue is figured out.

smallbison

I tried a little bit of everything, in the end I was able to boot the system without any (almost) systemd modules in the initramfs image.

First I changed the file /etc/dracut.conf.d/ostree.conf:
#add_dracutmodules+=" ostree systemd " omit_dracutmodules+=" ostree systemd systemd-network-management systemd-ac-power systemd-ask-password systemd-battery-check systemd-bsod systemd-coredump systemd-creds systemd-hostnamed systemd-initrd systemd-integritysetup systemd-journald systemd-ldconfig systemd-modules-load systemd-networkd systemd-pcrextend systemd-portabled systemd-pstore systemd-repart systemd-resolved systemd-sysctl systemd-sysext systemd-timedated systemd-timesyncd systemd-tmpfiles systemd-udevd systemd-veritysetup systemd-import systemd-cryptsetup systemd-emergency dracut-systemd systemd-sysusers "

Then I run the following command:
dracut -f --no-hostonly-cmdline "/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img" --kver 6.19.12-1

This produce -rw-r--r-- 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root -rw-r--r-- 1 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root -rw-r--r-- 1 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root -rwxr-xr-x 1 root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root an image with the following modules for systemd and crypt: root 70 Mar 25 13:16 etc/crypttab root 8177 Mar 25 13:16 lib/dracut-crypt-lib.sh root 5668 Mar 25 13:16 sbin/cryptroot-ask root 838 Mar 25 13:16 sbin/crypt-run-generator root 6263440 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3 root 14 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.3 root 605168 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcryptsetup.so.12.11.0 root 24 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcryptsetup.so.12 -> libcryptsetup.so.12.11.0 root 24 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcryptsetup.so -> libcryptsetup.so.12.11.0 root 198632 Dec 25 16:30 usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2.0.0 root 17 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 -> libcrypt.so.2.0.0 root 17 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libcrypt.so -> libcrypt.so.2.0.0 root 230104 Mar 25 13:16 usr/sbin/cryptsetup root 415 Mar 25 13:16 var/lib/dracut/hooks/cleanup/30-crypt-cleanup.sh root 8031 Mar 25 13:16 var/lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/30-parse-crypt.sh root 169 Mar 25 13:16 etc/conf.d/systemd.conf root 1291560 Mar 17 21:45 usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0.40.0 root 20 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0 -> libsystemd.so.0.40.0 root 15 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/libsystemd.so -> libsystemd.so.0 root 821 Mar 17 21:45 usr/lib/modprobe.d/systemd.conf root 0 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/systemd root 4316328 Mar 17 21:45 usr/lib/systemd/libsystemd-shared-257.so root 17 Mar 25 13:16 usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd -> ../../bin/udevadm

And then I had to change the kernel_cmdline parameter in limine with the following:
rd.luks.uuid=luks-7375153a-b334-432e-9171-b11d9e8d13d2 rd.lvm.lv=lvm0/root rd.lvm.lv=lvm0/swap root=/dev/mapper/lvm0-root rootfstype=ext4 rootflags=rw resume=UUID=bfdb664a-c454-4150-a710-50a604e62c29

Here my /etc/crypttab:
hdcrypt0 UUID=7375153a-b334-432e-9171-b11d9e8d13d2 none

demm

Could you add -v to your dracut call and post the full output, not clear from the above what all modules are used.

smallbison

dracut[I]: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut -f -v --no-hostonly-cmdline /boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img --kver 6.19.12-1 dracut[I]: 74nfs: Could not find any command of 'rpcbind portmap'! dracut[I]: 74nfs: Could not find any command of 'rpcbind portmap'! dracut[I]: *** Including module: bash *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: i18n *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: crypt *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: dm *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: fs-lib *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: kernel-modules *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: lvm *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: resume *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: rootfs-block *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: terminfo *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: udev-rules *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: initqueue *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: usrmount *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: base *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: shell-interpreter *** dracut[I]: *** Including module: shutdown *** dracut[I]: *** Including modules done *** dracut[I]: *** Installing kernel module dependencies *** dracut[I]: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done *** dracut[I]: *** Resolving dependencies for executables and libraries *** dracut[I]: *** Resolving dependencies for executables and libraries done *** dracut[I]: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image *** dracut[I]: *** Store current command line parameters *** dracut[I]: *** Stripping files *** dracut[I]: *** Stripping files done *** dracut[I]: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img.tmp' *** dracut[I]: *** Hardlinking files *** dracut[I]: *** Hardlinking files done *** dracut[I]: Using auto-determined compression method 'zstd' dracut[I]: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img.tmp' done *** dracut[I]: *** Moving image file '/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img.tmp' to '/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img' *** dracut[I]: *** Moving image file '/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img.tmp' to '/boot/initramfs-linux-6th.img' done ***

demm

If that image boots, then it looks like the crypt module is doing the job of 71systemd-cryptsetup.

smallbison

As far as I understood dracut loads all the modules that are installed in the system.
Omitting the systemd modules and using the proper syntax with the kernel command line parameter of the bootloader, did the trick for me