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David Heinemeier HanssonandClaude Fable 5
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Kernel 7.1 unpacks the initramfs asynchronously, which races /init: the early /proc, /sys, /dev, and /run mounts fail with EPERM while unpacking settles, so plymouthd exits when it can't read /proc/cmdline and encrypted boots fall back to an unthemed text LUKS prompt. Boot still completes only because the kernel passes key=value cmdline params to init as environment variables and devtmpfs is automounted. Force synchronous unpacking via initramfs_async=0 until the race is fixed upstream: in the packaged defaults for fresh installs, and via migration for existing systems. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>