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Description of Changes

Fixes permission related issues in generate-shutdown-ramfs.service after systemd upgrade

Type of Change

  • New Feature
  • Bug Fix
  • Improvement / Refactor

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  • Ghaf documentation updated with the commit - https://tiiuae.github.io/ghaf/
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Testing Instructions

  • Check the log of generate-shutdown-ramfs.service from previous boot

Applicable Targets

  • Orin AGX aarch64
  • Orin NX aarch64
  • Lenovo X1 x86_64
  • Dell Latitude x86_64
  • System 76 x86_64

Installation Method

  • Requires full re-installation
  • Can be updated with nixos-rebuild ... switch
  • Other:

Test Steps To Verify:

  1. Reboot the machine and check the log using command from host:
    "journalctl -u generate-shutdown-ramfs.service -b 1"
    It should show service finished successfully.

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Signed-off-by: Ganga Ram <Ganga.Ram@tii.ae>
@gngram gngram requested a review from clayhill66 November 13, 2025 07:12
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milva-unikie commented Nov 13, 2025

Tested on Lenovo X1 (nixos-rebuild switch)

Issue has been fixed. Boot works fine.

Without this PR

-- Boot 63f2ae5dca4d47149bc77dd9681466fe --
Nov 13 08:53:47 gui-vm systemd[1]: Starting Generate shutdown ramfs...
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2564]: /etc/initrd-release -> /nix/store/wqg733k88h4ghgrn37i3wq027zavvh12-etc-os-release
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2564]: Error: failed to create directories to "/run/initramfs//etc"
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2564]: Caused by:
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2564]:     Permission denied (os error 13)
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2564]: Location:
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2564]:     src/main.rs:340:18
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm systemd[1]: generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm systemd[1]: generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 13 08:53:48 gui-vm systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown ramfs.

With this PR

-- Boot 088773f490894c57bea8f01c3f510e6c --
Nov 13 08:57:04 gui-vm systemd[1]: Starting Generate shutdown ramfs...
Nov 13 08:57:04 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2194]: /etc/initrd-release -> /nix/store/wqg733k88h4ghgrn37i3wq027zavvh12-etc-os-release
Nov 13 08:57:04 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2194]: /etc/os-release -> /nix/store/wqg733k88h4ghgrn37i3wq027zavvh12-etc-os-release
Nov 13 08:57:04 gui-vm make-initrd-ng[2194]: /shutdown -> /nix/store/72x0ncl53xv5zlc9r8v758qzsq4jci9r-guivm-systemd-258/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown

@milva-unikie milva-unikie added Tested on Lenovo X1 Carbon This PR has been tested on Lenovo X1 Carbon and removed Needs Testing CI Team to pre-verify labels Nov 13, 2025
@brianmcgillion brianmcgillion merged commit 630f1b6 into tiiuae:main Nov 13, 2025
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@gngram gngram deleted the push/generate-shutdown-ramfs_failure branch November 13, 2025 10:27
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