[Bug 1873614] Re: Definition of add_mountroot_fail_hook doesnt match lvm2's usage

[Johannes Vass]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1871154 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871154

How would I execute the workaround if I cannot boot? Did anybody else
who couldn't boot solve the issue?

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Title:
  Definition of add_mountroot_fail_hook doesnt match lvm2's usage

Status in initramfs-tools:
  New
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Package lvm2 contains a init-premount script named /usr/share
  /initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/lvm2

  In this script there is the function call:
  add_mountroot_fail_hook "20-lvm2"

  Which is defined in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions

  In focal's 0.136ubuntu6 , this is defined as:

  add_mountroot_fail_hook()
  {
          mkdir -p /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d
          ln -s "$0" /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d/"$0"
  }

  The final line of the function will execute as
  ln -s "/scripts/lvm2" /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d/"/scripts/lvm2"

  And fail, because directory /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d/scripts does
  not exist.

  It is clear from lvm2's invocation that it expects the symlink to be
  named "20-lvm2" , and if we look at bionic's 0.130ubuntu3.6 that is
  the case:

  add_mountroot_fail_hook()
  {
          mkdir -p /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d
          ln -s "$0" /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d/"$1"
  }

  focal's version needs to be updated to either support the "$1"
  argument or strip the directory from "$0".

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