Bug#585609: linux-base: postinstall script fails on loop-aes partitions

[Adam Spragg <adam.spragg@octaltelecom.co.uk>]

On Friday 25 June 2010 14:00:32 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Sorry if I should know this already being a user of "testing", but *how*
> > do I reconfigure linux-base if it's currently broken in this manner?
> 
> dpkg --configure --pending

root@host:~# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ...
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda6
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
tune2fs failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1045, 
<STDIN> line 10.
dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6.32-5-686:
 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 depends on linux-base (>= 2.6.32-15); however:
  Package linux-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686:
 linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.32-5-686; however:
  Package linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-base
 linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
 linux-image-2.6-686
root@host:~# 


:-(

Adam

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Adam Spragg <adam.spragg@octaltelecom.co.uk>
Developer
Octal Telecom <http://www.octaltelecom.co.uk/>


It reverses the logical flow of conversation!
> Why?
> > No.
> > > Should I top post?
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