[systemd-devel] How to debug systemd-pcrphase-initrd.service failure

[Daan De Meyer]

Note that we also have `InitrdPackages=` in the latest mkosi release
which allows you to add extra packages to the default initrd without
having to build one separately.

Cheers,

Daan

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 14:26, Renjaya Raga Zenta <ragazenta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I think now I understand that mkosi will build default initrd image without tpm2-tss libraries. Perhaps because the package names are different for each distro.
>
> I need to build the initrd image separately at first, then use it to build OS image with --initrd flag.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 8:02 PM Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Mi, 06.12.23 18:28, Renjaya Raga Zenta (ragazenta at gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am exploring OS image building with mkosi. It works great until I add TPM
>> > 2.0 in qemu.
>> >
>> > I found that the systemd-pcrphase-initrd.service failed. There are 3
>> > pcrphase service:
>> >
>> > 1. systemd-pcrphase-initrd.service (failed)
>> > 2. systemd-pcrphase.service (ok)
>> > 3. systemd-pcrphase-sysinit.service (ok)
>>
>> So the latter two run from the host fs, the first one from the initrd fs.
>>
>> > Related journal log:
>> > systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-pcrphase-initrd.service - TPM2 PCR
>> > Barrier (initrd).
>> > ...
>> > systemd-pcrphase[130]: Failed to load TPM2 libraries: Operation not
>> > supported
>> > ...
>>
>> It appears you are lacking the tpm2-tss libraries in your initrd image.
>>
>> Lennart
>>
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>> Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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