#7411 NORM Never A: Boot fails after clean reflash of 708.

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#7411: Boot fails after clean reflash of 708.
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 Reporter:  mstone     |         Owner:  cscott        
     Type:  defect     |        Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal     |     Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  initramfs  |       Version:                
 Keywords:             |   Next_action:  diagnose      
 Verified:  0          |     Blockedby:                
 Blocking:             |  
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 The initramfs reports:

 {{{
 Hello, (children of the) world!
 ...
 mount: Mounting /sysroot/versions on /sysroot/versions/run/708/versions
 failed: No such file or directory
 Traceback (most recent call last):

   File "/init", line 124, in <module>
   File "/antitheft.py", line 30, in run
   File "/init", line 113, in run_init
   File "/initutil.py", line 289, in boot_run_xo
   File "/initutil.py", line 86, in __exit__
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 456, in check_call
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 443, in call
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 593, in __init__
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1134, in _execute_child
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 1374, in loads
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 858, in load
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/pickle.py", line 971, in load_string
 LookupError: unknown encoding: string-escape
 }}}

 Given that the mount is failing, it would seem to me that the tree
 creation code failed. Is this bug already known and fixed?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7411>
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