Hello everynyan!

Since 1:1.35.0-3, initramfs doesn't find the UUID of the root partition
anymore and drops me to a shell. In the shell however, the uuid is
listed in both /dev/disk/by-uuid and blkid.

At first, I didn't even know how I would boot going forward. First I
tried seting rootdelay in grub, but without any success. Only randomly
would I try to go root=/dev/sda2, setting the root partition by path,
thereby being able to see my login screen again.

Unsure of what to do, I tune2fs -U random every uuid and change the
fstab accordingly, followed by update-initramfs -u and update-grub.
When rebooting, initramfs just complains that it can't locate the new
uuid. Next I randomly downgrade packages that apt updated recently.
Ultimately I discover that when using busybox-static 1:1.35.0-2, the
problem is gone. When upgrading back to 1:1.35.0-3, it's there again.

There you go,

Bye

Version: 1:1.35.0-4

This is #1023501, which has been fixed in 1.35.0-4:

busybox (1:1.35.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * static build: disable blkid applet (CONFIG_BLKID, #1023501)

     Since static build has CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS=y, enabling
     any utility which is also provided by the system in other ways
     can be risky, since busybox shell will choose its applet version
     instead of running the actual utility, even if that utility file
     exists in $PATH. After enabling blkid, we effectively overwrote
     blkid from libblkid as used in initramfs. The result was non-
     working udev rules for block devices (not creating /dev/disk/by-*/),
     and the system's unbootable.

     Disable it for now at least on static build.
     Closes: 1023501

Thanks,

/mjt