Re: WARNING: potential breakage of the initramfs-brltty feature

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Hi

S=E9bastien Hinderer schrieb am 22.02.2026, 19:19 +0100:
>As you may know, it is possible to embed BRLTTY in initramfs, which is
>generally helpful to catch problems happening early during system
>startup. In particular this feature is the one that lets you know when
>the time has come to enter the
>passphrase to decrypt your encrypted hard drive.
>
>I am under the impression that embedding BRLTTY in recent initramfs
>file systems breaks them to the pont that the whole boot becomes
>impossible, the kernel trying to realise an impossible mount.

Do you know what the message looks like? I Have BRLTTY in my initramfs.
When I restarted yesterday, I got "something with initramfs" and at the end=
, a
kernel panic because it couldn't start init. But this was read to me in a
hurry.

>I observed this when trying to update to the Linux kernel
>6.18.12+deb14-amd64 so I would suggest not to try booting on this kernel
>for the moment.

So the fix is to just use the older kernel? I'll try that out later.

Thanks
Sebastian

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