Nadzeya Hutsko [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:24:07 +0000 (21:24 +0100)]
feat: rename rd.live.overlay to rd.overlay
The overlay functionality can be used with both dmsquash-live and
overlayfs modules, and is not limited to live images. This change
improves naming of command line options with better namespace scoping.
Nadzeya Hutsko [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:54:13 +0000 (12:54 +0100)]
fix(test/DMSQUASH): zero overlay partition on reset
The reset_overlay_partition function was not fully clearing
the overlay partition. Delete the partition from the
partition table and zero out the disk region to ensure a
clean state between test runs.
Nadzeya Hutsko [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:50:50 +0000 (12:50 +0100)]
refactor(test/DMSQUASH): extract autooverlay helpers for reuse
Extract check_autooverlay_marker() and reset_overlay_partition() helper
functions to avoid code duplication when testing multiple autooverlay
scenarios.
Nadzeya Hutsko [Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:03:28 +0000 (13:03 +0100)]
fix(dmsquash-live-autooverlay): re-read partition table after creation
After parted creates the overlay partition, the kernel's in-memory
partition table is not automatically updated. This causes mkfs to fail
with "The file /dev/sdX does not exist" on some systems.
Add blockdev --rereadpt to force the kernel to re-read the partition
table before attempting to create the filesystem.
Jo Zzsi [Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:51:44 +0000 (09:51 -0500)]
feat(lvm): match host lvm recovery installation
These LVM tools are just symlinks to binaries that are already installed
inside the initramfs. Dracut might as well install these symlinks to
avoid people looking for them during a potentially stressful recovery time.
Hongxu Jia [Thu, 22 May 2025 10:07:27 +0000 (18:07 +0800)]
fix(Makefile): broken symlink in dracut config examples
Due to commit [1], it installs dracut config examples under /usr.
But while enable_test=no, the symlink of test in dracut config is broken
```
root@qemux86-64:~# ls /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test* -ahl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 5 2011 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test -> ../test/dracut.conf.d/test/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Apr 5 2011 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test-makeroot -> ../test/dracut.conf.d/test-makeroot/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 5 2011 /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test-root -> ../test/dracut.conf.d/test-root
root@qemux86-64:~# realpath /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test*
realpath: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test: No such file or directory
realpath: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test-makeroot: No such file or directory
realpath: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/test-root: No such file or directory
```
This commit cleans up test symlink if enable_test=no
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:45:17 +0000 (14:45 +0100)]
feat(livenet): support root=http:* as alias for root=live:http:*
For compatibility with `cloud-initramfs-rooturl` support `root=http:*`
as alias for `root=live:http:*` and `root=https:*` as alias for
`root=live:https:*`.
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 6 Jan 2026 14:39:49 +0000 (15:39 +0100)]
feat: move DRACUT_VERSION from dracut-version.sh into dracut.sh
`dracut-version.sh` is only sourced by `dracut.sh`. So move defining
`DRACUT_VERSION` into `dracut.sh` and remove `dracut-version.sh`. This
allows removing code for sourcing this file.
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:29:22 +0000 (14:29 +0100)]
feat: add yamllint config
Add a yamllint config allowing a line length of 120 characters for the
beginning. The next steps would wrap the too long lines and add a linter
job running `yamllint .`.
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:13:04 +0000 (14:13 +0100)]
ci: remove duplicate ubuntu image jobs from container-extra
The `ubuntu:devel` and `ubuntu:rolling` container images are already
built by the container job. There is no need to build them on the
container-extra job as well.
Benjamin Drung [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:36:42 +0000 (19:36 +0100)]
test: add test case for booting root=live:<URL>
Add a test case for booting `root=live:<URL>` before adding new features
to the `livenet` Dracut module. Numbering the test is tricky, because it
uses live boot (range 30-39) and basic networking (range 60-69).
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:31:09 +0000 (12:31 +0100)]
ci: only publish to GitHub Pages for dracut-ng repo
Forking dracut-ng will also fork the CI configs and pushes to the forked
main branch will trigger the publish job which will fail (unless pages
are explicitly enabled).
So only publish to GitHub Pages when triggered from the dracut-ng
repository.
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:01:22 +0000 (12:01 +0100)]
ci: also push tags when container jobs were triggered manually
The CI jobs for building the containers might be triggered manually. The
event name is `workflow_dispatch` then and the tag update would not be
pushed. That defeats the purpose of running those jobs manually.
Benjamin Drung [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:13:23 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
ci: explicitly install python3 in containers
Explicitly install python3 in the containers to allow testing the
`livenet` module using Python 3 `http.server` as HTTP server. Many of
the containers already have Python installed as dependency.
Benjamin Drung [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:14:28 +0000 (13:14 +0100)]
chore(gitignore): ignore .testdir and test logs
`test/test-functions` creates a `.testdir` file with `-$TEST_RUN_ID` as
suffix. It also create log files named `server.log` and
`test${TEST_RUN_ID:+-$TEST_RUN_ID}.log`.
Nadzeya Hutsko [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:57:29 +0000 (10:57 +0100)]
test(DMSQUASH): fix autooverlay test checks the entire root.img
The test searched for the marker string in the entire root.img, but
the string also existed literally in test-init.sh embedded in the
first partition, causing a false positive. Fix by extracting and
searching only the second (overlay) partition.
Nadzeya Hutsko [Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:59:53 +0000 (10:59 +0100)]
test(DMSQUASH): fix do_live_overlay not being called
The test disk image contained raw rootfs instead of the live
structure (LiveOS/rootfs.img), so FSIMG was empty and do_live_overlay()
was never called. Fix by using the live structure on disk.
Benjamin Drung [Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:12:11 +0000 (18:12 +0100)]
test: use assertion.sh hook for test-root
The test-root `test-init.sh` script can run test case specific test
assertion if `/assertion.sh` is present.
Use this infrastructure for `TEST-30-DMSQUASH`. This fixes the issue
(found by Nadzeya) that `test-init.sh` tried to read `/proc/cmdline` but
`/proc` was not mounted and the directory did not exist. `test-init.sh`
takes care of mounting `/proc`.
Jo Zzsi [Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:48:54 +0000 (12:48 -0500)]
feat(dracut): add busybox support for 3cpio and enhanced_cpio
3cpio and enhanced_cpio is already supported with coreutils.
This PR adds support for 3cpio and enhanced_cpio for busybox as well.
busybox stat does not support `file-system` syntax, instead
it supports `-f` syntax only.
Li Tian [Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:24:36 +0000 (13:24 +0800)]
fix(dracut): remove trailing null characters from SBATs when building UKIs
SBAT of kernel has null character paddings at the end. Using tools
like ukify will display massive amount of '\0' in SBAT. Ukify is
doing ".rstrip('b\x00')" when merging SBATs.
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:36:22 +0000 (15:36 +0100)]
test(KERNEL-INSTALL): check kernel-install result
The kernel-install call should create an `initrd` file that the test
will use later in `test_run`. Check that this file has been created to
ease debugging in case of a failure.
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 6 Sep 2025 18:49:40 +0000 (14:49 -0400)]
fix(i18n): remove Gentoo workaround that is no longer needed
Gentoo no longer sets KEYMAP to something like "-u pl2", instead
it is set to "pl12".
This piece of code is part of the very original commit of the i18n
dracut module from 2010 - 87122af
There is no mention of '-u' in the oldest version of the wiki from 2013
https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Keyboard_layout_switching&diff=1320347&oldid=16937
Remove this workaround that is no longer used or tested to
make it easier to reason about the code.
Benjamin Drung [Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:16:25 +0000 (13:16 +0100)]
test: run QEMU with a timeout unless daemonized
Dracut tests might hang. The Dracut CI sets a timeout to kill those
hanging tests, but downstream might not configure something similar.
Run QEMU with a timeout (unless daemonized) to avoid hanging tests
forever.
The slowest tests executions that I have seen on Debian/Ubuntu:
* 33:44 for test 11 (5 client tests) on Ubuntu resolute on armhf
* 101:58 for test 60 (19 client tests) on Debian unstable on ppc64el
* 19:58 for test 70 (3 client tests) on Ubuntu resolute on arm64
* 22:35 for test 71 (4 client tests) on Ubuntu resolute on arm64
* 52:48 for test 72 (8 client tests) Debian unstable on ppc64el
These slow tests take between 5:22 and 6:45 for each client tests on
average (ignoring the setup cost). So set the timeout to 10 minutes as
default.
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:53:01 +0000 (08:53 -0500)]
ci: combine omitsystemd x64 and arm64 into one GitHub action
Running tests on arm64 is just as stable as x64, there is
no need to separate them. Combine them into one GitHub
action should make it easier to reason about regressions.
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:30:41 +0000 (08:30 -0500)]
ci: combine systemd x64 and arm64 into one GitHub action
Running tests on arm64 is just as stable as x64, there is
no need to separate them. Combine them into one GitHub
action should make it easier to reason about regressions.
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:19:49 +0000 (08:19 -0500)]
ci: combine hostonlystrict x64 and arm64 into one GitHub action
Running tests on arm64 is just as stable as x64, there is
no need to separate them. Combine them into one GitHub
action should make it easier to reason about regressions.
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:05:25 +0000 (08:05 -0500)]
ci: combine network-manager x64 and arm64 into one GitHub action
Running tests on arm64 is just as stable as x64, there is
no need to separate them. Combine them into one GitHub
action should make it easier to reason about regressions.
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:19:44 +0000 (07:19 -0500)]
ci: combine basic x64 and arm64 into one GitHub action
Running tests on arm64 is just as stable as x64, there is
no need to separate them. Combine them into one GitHub
action should make it easier to reason about regressions.
This test aims to run without the `initqueue` module, but the `base` module
depends on it if `$hostonly_cmdline == "yes"` [1]. Although the test ends
successfully, the log shows some errors because `dracut-lib.sh` is not present
if the `base` module cannot be installed:
```
dracut[E]: Module 'base' depends on module 'initqueue', which can't be installed
...
/usr/bin/dracut-cmdline-ask: line 3: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file or directory
[ 2.108191] dracut-cmdline[254]: /usr/bin/dracut-cmdline: line 6: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file or directory
[ 2.129548] dracut-pre-udev[259]: /usr/bin/dracut-pre-udev: line 6: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file or directory
...
[ 3.176822] dracut-pre-pivot[368]: /usr/bin/dracut-pre-pivot: line 7: /lib/dracut-lib.sh: No such file or directory
...
All OK
```
Benjamin Drung [Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:34:36 +0000 (14:34 +0100)]
feat(dracut): drop unreachable code for dracutbasedir/initdir
`dracut.sh` sets the variables `dracutbasedir` and `initdir`. Then it
creates the `initdir` directory. So checking those variables again can
be dropped.
Follow-up: 4cb4917e1222 ("refactor: fold dracut-init.sh into dracut.sh")
Benjamin Drung [Mon, 5 Jan 2026 23:32:20 +0000 (00:32 +0100)]
fix(dracut): source dracut-functions.sh before calling dwarning
`dracut-functions.sh` sources `dracut-logger.sh` which defines the
`dwarning` function. `dracut.sh` might call `dwarning` before
`dracut-functions.sh` is sourced.
`dracut-functions.sh` calls `find_binary` and `dlog_init` when sourced.
`find_binary` needs `dracutsysrootdir` set and `dlog_init` needs
`stdloglvl`, `sysloglvl`, `kmsgloglvl`, `maxloglvl`, `fileloglvl`,
`logfile`. Move sourcing `dracut-functions.sh` as early as possible, but
after setting those variables.
Follow-up for 8d9887b Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/1124479
Jo Zzsi [Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:46:23 +0000 (13:46 -0500)]
chore: move net udev rules to net-lib dracut modules
The net-lib dracut module is designed to be always installed when
networking is enabled in the generated initramfs.
Move networking related udev rules to net-lib dracut modules from the
udev-rules dracut module.
The motivation behind this change is to increase modularity,
stay consistent with other dracut modules and potentially
increase performance when networking is not required in the
initramfs.