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Package: linux-image
Version: 2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-27_i386.deb
Severity: normal
Debian/Squueze - Linux 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Jul 24 02:27:10 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Hi all,
last week the upgrading to sub '27' of captioned linux-image stopped
on a line saying 'Running yes' while running update-initramfs. To
continue, I had to find the relating process and kill it, thus receiving
an error and no upgrading of the image.
I tried a few times until, almost by chance, looking at the 'ps' output I
saw this line:
root 22526 0.0 0.0 3680 480 pts/2 S+ 00:02 0:00 \_ yes 2.6.32-5-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
thus becoming aware there really was a '/usr/bin/yes' program (in coreutils
pkg). So I decided to try again after hijacking 'yes' (moving it to
'/usr/bin/OLD.yes'):
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# apt-get upgrade
....
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (2.6.32-27) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.postinst line 347.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.postinst line 347.
Running yes.
User postinst hook script [yes] failed to execute: No such file or directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
.....
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Despite the error, the image is correctly created and the bootloader
updated. However, looking into the 'postinst' file, I was unable to find a call to
'yes' so I do not quite understand what and why is happening. On the
other hand, I see no reason why such a program, whose aim is to 'output
a string repeatedly until killed' should intervene in the upgrading
process.
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
ennio
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 05:31:33PM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote:
>
> Package: linux-image
> Version: 2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-27_i386.deb
> Severity: normal
>
> Debian/Squueze - Linux 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Jul 24 02:27:10 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Hi all,
>
> last week the upgrading to sub '27' of captioned linux-image stopped
> on a line saying 'Running yes' while running update-initramfs. To
[...]
> Running yes.
> User postinst hook script [yes] failed to execute: No such file or directory
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
This is your configuration error.
Remove the line 'postinst_hook = yes' from /etc/kernel-img.conf.
Ben.
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