Bug#585991: initramfs-tools: package installation fails (postinst scripts?)
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.94.4
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 6.4
Cannot upgrade to initramfs-tools 0.96.1, I have to downgrade back to 0.94.4
for aptitude to work properly.
# aptitude upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
initramfs-tools
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/78.8kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 164486 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace initramfs-tools 0.94.4 (using .../initramfs-
tools_0.96.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement initramfs-tools ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.96.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem
[: 2: /sys/block/md2: unexpected operator
readlink: extra operand `:'
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
[and so on until aptitude is killed]
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=//vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem root=UUID=3078287d-711f-4a0e-9d85-4033c3f9ac77 ro
-- /proc/filesystems
reiserfs
ext2
fuseblk
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 908 1
cifs 219978 2
tun 8728 2
ppdev 4058 0
lp 5570 0
parport 22554 2 ppdev,lp
sco 5837 2
bnep 7376 2
l2cap 21677 3 bnep
crc16 1027 1 l2cap
bluetooth 36259 5 sco,bnep,l2cap
rfkill 10196 2 bluetooth
acpi_cpufreq 4907 0
cpufreq_powersave 602 0
cpufreq_stats 1940 0
cpufreq_userspace 1444 0
cpufreq_conservative 4018 0
kvm_intel 32458 3
binfmt_misc 4875 1
kvm 179565 1 kvm_intel
fuse 43554 1
bridge 32851 0
stp 996 1 bridge
ext2 46141 1
mbcache 3762 1 ext2
loop 9721 0
usbhid 26836 0
hid 50545 1 usbhid
snd_hda_codec_analog 45498 1
snd_hda_intel 15347 3
snd_hda_codec 46002 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 4054 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 28479 0
snd_mixer_oss 10461 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 47518 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi 3480 0
snd_rawmidi 12313 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 3684 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 35303 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 12258 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 3673 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 33551 16 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
uhci_hcd 16033 0
ide_pci_generic 1924 0
ehci_hcd 27626 0
i915 217471 3
ide_core 63922 1 ide_pci_generic
drm_kms_helper 17183 1 i915
sg 15932 0
drm 108143 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
ata_generic 2015 0
sr_mod 10770 0
soundcore 3450 1 snd
usbcore 98278 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
snd_page_alloc 5045 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cdrom 26487 1 sr_mod
dcdbas 3908 0
i2c_algo_bit 3497 1 i915
e1000e 97913 0
i2c_i801 6446 0
i2c_core 12612 4 i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
nls_base 4541 3 nls_utf8,cifs,usbcore
video 14605 1 i915
output 1204 1 video
evdev 5609 10
pcspkr 1207 0
intel_agp 20409 1
agpgart 19576 2 drm,intel_agp
button 3598 1 i915
wmi 3575 0
serio_raw 2916 0
psmouse 44409 0
processor 25811 1 acpi_cpufreq
reiserfs 175408 1
raid1 16067 2
md_mod 67093 3 raid1
sd_mod 25717 6
crc_t10dif 1012 1 sd_mod
ahci 26462 4
libata 114048 2 ata_generic,ahci
thermal 9206 0
thermal_sys 9378 3 video,processor,thermal
scsi_mod 101077 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
BOOT=local
DEVICE=eth0
NFSROOT=auto
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (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/dash
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii cpio 2.11-4 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii findutils 4.4.2-1 utilities for finding files--find,
ii klibc-utils 1.5.18-1 small utilities built with klibc f
ii module-init-tools 3.12~pre2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 157-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.15.3-1 Tiny utilities for small and embed
initramfs-tools suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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