[Bug 1876539] Re: initramfs: decoding failed happend on boot, and the mounting failed too. This keeps happening on boot and causes the superblock to eventually be corrupted.

[Steve Langasek]

The "initramfs decoding failed" message is a false positive message that
is due to be fixed in the kernel.  It is not related to any corruption.

You have also filed this bug against plymouth; plymouth is the component
responsible for the boot splash screen and does not have anything to do
with filesystem mounting and cannot be responsible for superblock
corruption.

If your filesystem is being corrupted then this is likely a kernel bug.
I'll reassign this report to the kernel now for further triaging.

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Title:
  initramfs: decoding failed happend on boot, and the mounting failed
  too. This keeps happening on boot and causes the superblock to
  eventually be corrupted.

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This happens whenever I use the ACPI mode instead of the RAID On mode
  in my BIOS and install Ubuntu. On reboot, oftentimes, the decoding
  fails, data becomes corrupt, and it ruins the install.

  And this happens on the boot stages, especially during power-on and
  power-off.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: plymouth 0.9.4git20200323-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-28.32-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-28-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  Date: Sat May  2 21:23:23 2020
  DefaultPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/bgrt/bgrt.plymouth
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-02 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  Lsusb:
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:e009 Qualcomm Atheros Communications 
   Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
   Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:6a06 Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 5570
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-28-generic root=UUID=73e1319d-f104-4a50-a339-0f3823b5b7c4 ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-28-generic root=UUID=73e1319d-f104-4a50-a339-0f3823b5b7c4 ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /usr/share/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 02/20/2020
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1.2.5
  dmi.board.name: 09YTN7
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A00
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.2.5:bd02/20/2020:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron5570:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn09YTN7:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr:
  dmi.product.family: Inspiron
  dmi.product.name: Inspiron 5570
  dmi.product.sku: 0810
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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