Description of problem: I noticed my initramfs looked like so $ ls => ABI: etc Linux run sysroot 0x8000000000000000, bin init OS sbin tmp 2.2.5) dev lib proc shutdown usr 2.3.99) dracut-tmpfiles.conf lib64 root sys var Running dracut in debug mode revealed this was coming from parsing the output of "ldconfig -pN". $ dracut --debug --force --kver 4.1.4-100.fc21.x86_64 ... ///usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@133(source): ldconfig_paths ///usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@109(ldconfig_paths): local a i ///usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@110(ldconfig_paths): declare -A a ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@112(ldconfig_paths): ldconfig -pN ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@112(ldconfig_paths): grep -F '=>' ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@112(ldconfig_paths): grep -E -v '/(lib|lib64|usr/lib|usr/lib64)/[^/]*$' ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@112(ldconfig_paths): read a b c d ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@113(ldconfig_paths): d='0x8000000000000000, OS ABI: Linux 2.3.99) => /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls' ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@114(ldconfig_paths): printf '%s\n' '0x8000000000000000, OS ABI: Linux 2.3.99) => /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls' ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@112(ldconfig_paths): read a b c d ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@113(ldconfig_paths): d='ABI: Linux 2.2.5) => /usr/lib64/nvidia' ////usr/lib/dracut/dracut-functions.sh@114(ldconfig_paths): printf '%s\n' 'ABI: Linux 2.2.5) => /usr/lib64/nvidia' ... Running it manually reveals the NVIDIA libraries have additional pieces of information that is presumably tripping up the parser. $ ldconfig -pN ... libogg.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib64/libogg.so.0 libnvidia-tls.so.340.29 (libc6,x86-64, hwcap: 0x8000000000000000, OS ABI: Linux 2.3.99) => /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.340.29 libnvidia-tls.so.340.29 (libc6,x86-64, OS ABI: Linux 2.2.5) => /usr/lib64/nvidia/libnvidia-tls.so.340.29 libnvidia-opencl.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/nvidia/libnvidia-opencl.so.1 libnvidia-ml.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/nvidia/libnvidia-ml.so.1 ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 038-39.git20150518.fc21.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install NVIDIA kernel and xorg drivers from the official nvidia cuda repo http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/fedora21/x86_64 2. Rebuild initramfs with dracut 3. Unpack initramfs and look at directory structure Actual results: Invalid directories like "=>", "ABI:", "0x8000000000000000", and so on. Expected results: Just normal linux FS directories like "bin", "lib", "etc", and so on. Additional info:
dracut-038-40.git20150819.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-038-40.git20150819.fc21
dracut-038-40.git20150819.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-038-40.git20150819.fc21
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