Bug#549627: ..does "nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-686.postinst line 569" with / @ /dev/dm-0 and /boot @ /dev/hda1
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686
Version: 2.6.30-8
Severity: normal
...it tries hard but fails:
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Setting up linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 (2.6.30-8) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-686.postinst line 569.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-686.postinst line 569.
Running update-grub.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /.
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686:
linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.30-2-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.30-2-686
linux-image-2.6-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 (2.6.30-8) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-686.postinst line 569.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.30-2-686.postinst line 569.
Running update-grub.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /.
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686:
linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.30-2-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.30-2-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.30-2-686
linux-image-2.6-686
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...disk setup:
a16:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-0 71G 17G 51G 25% /
tmpfs 1014M 8.0K 1014M 1% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 160K 9.9M 2% /dev
tmpfs 1014M 168K 1014M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 236M 42M 182M 19% /boot
a16:~# grub-probe -d /dev/dm-0
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/dm-0. Check your device.map.
a16:~# grub-probe -d /dev/hda1
ext2
a16:~# grub-probe -d /dev/hda
grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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