kernel-image-2.4.18-686.postinst problem

[bxf4@psu.edu (Brian P. Flaherty)]

Hello,

Apart from the first Debian install (potato and 2.2pre17), I have
never installed a Debian kernel with dselect, I have built my own.
Today, I tried to install the 2.4.18-5 image on my laptop.  While it
is being configured, I get an error at a readlink call ("readlink:
need exactly one argument.")  and then the script returns the message
that it "Failed to create initrd image."

>From snooping around, I see that there are two readlink statements,
but there is a lot happening in this postinst script and I am
hesistant to just start playing with it.  I tried to print the value
of the variable being assigned by the readlink statement, but nothing
was shown (by doing 'print STDERR $varname'). 

Any suggestions on how I should proceed figuring this out?  I didn't
see any bugs on this or anything in related in the mailinglists (user
and devel).

Thanks for any suggestions.

Brian Flaherty


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