Initramfs does not provide full version of blkid

Affected images versions

v2024dev2

Background

Currently APT image fail to boot from time to time with error:

Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems:

• Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
  • Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
• Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! UUID=2fcde2c7-a4d6-4904-a49a-67fa71fb8a48 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.35.0 (Apertis 1:1.35.0-4+apertis1bv2024dev2b1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Image have been created with using UPLOAD_ARTIFACTS=1 and SUBMIT_LAVA_JOBS=1 https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/apertis-image-recipes/-/tree/wip/wlozano/rebase-test

LAVA job https://lava.collabora.dev/scheduler/job/10515260#L6984

After investigating the root cause seems to be that blkid utility is not present in the initramfs, in its place the busybox version is used which does not support the required options.

Reproducibility

How often the issue is hit when repeating the test and changing nothing (same device, same image, etc.)?

Put the ✅ in the most appropriate entry:

1. always
2. ✅ often, but not always
3. rarely

Impact of bug

Randomly images generated do not boot

Root cause

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Outcomes

Fix in rust-coreutils: pkg/rust-coreutils!23 (merged) Remove workaround in busybox: pkg/busybox!32 (merged)

Management data

This section is for management only, it should be the last one in the description.

/cc @andrunko @em @sagar @sudarshan @wlozano

Phabricator link: https://phabricator.apertis.org/T9755