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Hello!

I just installed a test system with encrypted /.

I used the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script and it worked, I will
see how that works after the kernel update.

Although, I see the geninitrd command exists, but has no manpage.

http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/15.0.php
I'd strongly recommend using a generic kernel for the best kernel module compatibility as well. It's easier to do that than in previous releases
- the
installer now makes an initrd for you, and the new geninitrd utility will rebuild the initrd automatically for the latest kernel packages you've installed on the system.#

What exactly does it and how is it triggered?
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with <112t69k$1vtls$1@dont-email.me> Marco Moock wrote:

I just installed a test system with encrypted /.
I used the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script and it worked, I will
see how that works after the kernel update.
Although, I see the geninitrd command exists, but has no manpage.

*SKIP* [ 6 lines 1 level deep]

What exactly does it

Luckily, it's a shell script.

how is it triggered?

Automagically, any time new kernel arrives.

# grep -l geninitrd /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/*
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Am 13.07.26 um 00:23 schrieb Eric Pozharski:

with <112t69k$1vtls$1@dont-email.me> Marco Moock wrote:

I just installed a test system with encrypted /.
I used the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script and it worked, I will
see how that works after the kernel update.
Although, I see the geninitrd command exists, but has no manpage.

*SKIP* [ 6 lines 1 level deep]

What exactly does it

Luckily, it's a shell script.

how is it triggered?

Automagically, any time new kernel arrives.

# grep -l geninitrd /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/*

Thanks for that info.

Although the automatic script is not suitable if LUKS/LVM is needed,
unless modified.
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Marco

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* Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net>

with <112t69k$1vtls$1@dont-email.me> Marco Moock wrote:

I just installed a test system with encrypted /.
I used the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script and it worked, I will
see how that works after the kernel update.
Although, I see the geninitrd command exists, but has no manpage.

*SKIP* [ 6 lines 1 level deep]

What exactly does it

Luckily, it's a shell script.

how is it triggered?

Automagically, any time new kernel arrives.

# grep -l geninitrd /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/*

Hm, that's news to me ... Slackware64-15.0 here:

[root@next:~]# grep -l geninitrd /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/*
[root@next:~]# grep -l mkinitrd /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/* /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-28
[root@next:~]# ls -la /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/kernel-*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 236425 Sep 13 2025 /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/kernel-firmware-20250912_f0f4634-noarch-1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 358 Jun 3 08:24 /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/kernel-generic-5.15.209-x86_64-1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 72 Jun 3 08:25 /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/kernel-headers-5.15.209-x86-1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 222 Jun 3 08:27 /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/kernel-modules-5.15.209-x86_64-1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8119 Jun 3 08:52 /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/kernel-source-5.15.209-noarch-1

The only thing that the kernel-generic script does is fixing the symlinks
in /boot. I always invoke geninitrd manually after upgrading my kernel-* packages.

Thomas
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Am 19.07.26 um 13:45 schrieb Thomas Zajic:

The only thing that the kernel-generic script does is fixing the symlinks
in /boot. I always invoke geninitrd manually after upgrading my kernel-* packages.

/var/lib/pkgtools/setup/setup.01.mkinitrd seems to be the place.
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* Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>

Am 19.07.26 um 13:45 schrieb Thomas Zajic:

The only thing that the kernel-generic script does is fixing the symlinks in /boot. I always invoke geninitrd manually after upgrading my kernel-* packages.

/var/lib/pkgtools/setup/setup.01.mkinitrd seems to be the place.

Yes, but that's only relevant for the initial OS installation. It does
*not* get invoked automagically on "upgradepkg kernel-generic".

The only thing that gets run automatically on "installpkg" or "upgradepkg"
is the "install/doinst.sh" script, if one is included in the package.

Or are we actually discussing the inital installation of Slackware here?
I have to admit that I missed the beginning of this thread. O:-)

Thomas
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with <113i7g1$1rg4$1@solani.org> Marco Moock wrote:

Am 13.07.26 um 00:23 schrieb Eric Pozharski:

with <112t69k$1vtls$1@dont-email.me> Marco Moock wrote:

I just installed a test system with encrypted /. I used the
mkinitrd_command_generator.sh script and it worked, I will see how
that works after the kernel update. Although, I see the geninitrd
command exists, but has no manpage.

*SKIP* [ 3 lines 3 levels deep]

Automagically, any time new kernel arrives.
# grep -l geninitrd /var/lib/pkgtools/scripts/*

*SKIP* [ 1 line 0 level deep]

Although the automatic script is not suitable if LUKS/LVM is needed,
unless modified.

I'm not user of 'geninitrd' itself (it's disabled as soon it manifested
its presence) but it's companion to 'mkinitrd'. And as of the latter it
works with LVM fine (as much as my limited usage of LVM goes). Can't
say anything about LUKS -- not a user.
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Thomas Zajic <zlatko@gmx.at> wrote:

The only thing that gets run automatically on "installpkg" or "upgradepkg"
is the "install/doinst.sh" script, if one is included in the package.

In -current, the doinst.sh script runs geninitrd. Not yet in 15.0.
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:46:43 +0000, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:

Thomas Zajic <zlatko@gmx.at> wrote:

The only thing that gets run automatically on "installpkg" or
"upgradepkg"
is the "install/doinst.sh" script, if one is included in the package.

In -current, the doinst.sh script runs geninitrd. Not yet in 15.0.

There is also a hint about this in ChangeLog.txt, in current it simply
says something like this:

-8<--------------------------------------------
+--------------------------+
Sat Jul 18 23:57:46 UTC 2026
a/kernel-firmware-20260716_924d73c-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-6.18.39-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/xfsprogs-7.1.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/htop-3.5.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.18.39-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-6.18.39-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/mozilla-nss-3.126-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/intel-media-driver-26.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xclock-1.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-7.1.x/kernel-generic-7.1.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-7.1.x/kernel-headers-7.1.4-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-7.1.x/kernel-source-7.1.4-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
+-------------------------+
-8<--------------------------------------------

While the stable version 15.0 ChangeLog.txt says something like this:

-8<--------------------------------------------
+--------------------------+
Tue Jun 2 02:32:11 UTC 2026 patches/packages/linux-5.15.209/kernel-generic-5.15.209-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes security issues:
rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing
rxrpc: Fix anonymous key handling
rxrpc: only handle RESPONSE during service challenge
rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets
rxrpc: Fix call removal to use RCU safe deletion
rxrpc: Fix key quota calculation for multitoken keys
rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31696
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31676
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23066
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31637
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31642
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31630
(* Security fix *) patches/packages/linux-5.15.209/kernel-headers-5.15.209-x86-1.txz:
Upgraded.
patches/packages/linux-5.15.209/kernel-huge-5.15.209-x86_64-1.txz:
Upgraded.
This update fixes security issues:
rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing
rxrpc: Fix anonymous key handling
rxrpc: only handle RESPONSE during service challenge
rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets
rxrpc: Fix call removal to use RCU safe deletion
rxrpc: Fix key quota calculation for multitoken keys
rxrpc: proc: size address buffers for %pISpc output
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31696
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31676
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23066
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31637
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31642
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31630
(* Security fix *) patches/packages/linux-5.15.209/kernel-modules-5.15.209-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
patches/packages/linux-5.15.209/kernel-source-5.15.209-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages.
If you use lilo to boot your machine, be sure lilo.conf points to the correct
kernel and initrd and run lilo as root to update the bootloader.
If you use elilo to boot your machine, you should run eliloconfig to
copy the
kernel and initrd to the EFI System Partition.
+--------------------------+
-8<--------------------------------------------

Please note the last lines about the need to manually updating your
bootloader and any initrd.

regards Henrik
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