Preparing to go off on my semi-annual visit east I was trying to ensure that the primary systems here that have encrypted root drives (oregano, cinnamon and rosemary) could each be rebooted from afar by attaching to a dropbear instance during the initramfs. See article on booting notes about that.

Somehow Oregano became unbootable. Again. It usually takes three or four hours of flailing around to figure out what little thing has caused it to point its casters to the sky. It takes only a little longer to just rebuild from scratch with the latest release.