Hi Jose, I'm dropping off the cc of "debian-cloud at l.d.o", because this is really a kernel matter, so I see no reason for cross-posting. I can post the outcome in there when we reach a solution. On 1 February 2016 at 08:37, Jose R R <Jose.r.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does the kernel boot after after you rebuild it with GZIP=y? Yes it does. The only problem with this approach is the effort needed to rebuild the package and keep it updated. > The script is not without its issues, apparently, but you can modify > xxx[1] in script if that is causing your hang. >From what I understood in the reference, one should do this only if the "mktemp" call fails. This doesn't looks to be related to the problem I encountered. > In Google Cloud Engine (GCE) I have not experienced those issues as I > have created several images in Jessie and Stretch -- manually at the > moment. They are Debian vanilla except for Reiser4 -patched kernel and > root (/) Reiser4 -formatted. You are rebuilding/recompiling the kernel packaging like I did? Or are you talking about decompressing the kernel image? Because, as I said, I had no problem with the first one. What I'm reporting here is solely related to an uncompressed (or compressed with other method than XZ) kernel. > PS I have also found binwalk [2] useful when examining contents of > compressed kernel > apt-get install binwalk Thanks for the tip - although I got a little bit surprised with so many dependencies in what should be a simple command-line utility. Here's what I got from "binwalk /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64": DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 0x0 Microsoft portable executable 18356 0x47B4 xz compressed data 3108600 0x2F6EF8 xz compressed data Not sure about what bytes "0-18355" means. Maybe a false-positive? If I run it with "-e", it get two files ("47B4.tar" and "2F6EF8.tar") that can't be decompressed with "tar"/"unxz". - Ben, On 1 February 2016 at 06:03, Tiago Ilieve <tiago.myhro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yesterday, Ben Hutchings itself (...) Sorry. It should be "himself". If it helps you to accept my apologies, I have written that message at 6 AM after tackling this issue overnight. :-( Regards, Tiago. -- Tiago "Myhro" Ilieve Blog: https://blog.myhro.info/ GitHub: https://github.com/myhro LinkedIn: https://br.linkedin.com/in/myhro Montes Claros - MG, Brasil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html