Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 10:01 +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.12.9-1 > Severity: normal > > I had the wrong /boot mounted. > After reboot I noticed that, got the correct filesystem on there, and did "apt- > get install --reinstall" - but that stopped with the error message above. > > strace showed this: > > > [pid 8236] 09:56:54.538994 symlink("/boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-amd64", > "initrd.img") = -1 EEXIST (File exists) > Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-amd64 to initrd.img. > > So I guess there might be some script that looks at the link, says "it's > correct, no need to delete", but the symlink() call later on then gets the > error. [...] Can you provide the full strace output, and output of 'ls -l /boot'? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.
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