Re: Latest Debian for Sheevaplug?

[Gilles <codecomplete@free.fr>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:30:01 +0100, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>
wrote:
>I?ve heard (but can?t remember where, sadly) that this is *not* a sign of the mmcblk device wearing out.  It?s actually (according to my, possibly faulty, recollection) indicative of a difference in understanding between uboot and Linux as to what the partition table should look like for an mmcblk device.  Whatever is doing the read is referring to an address beyond the end of the logical device because it thinks the logical device is bigger than it actually is.
>
>In any case, I?ve been getting it on reboots for years and not had any difficulty.  It only shows up on booting, not during actual run-time.

Thanks for the tip.

But I'm also getting errors when trying to upgrade the kernel after
running "apt-get update":

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# apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood (3.2.65-1+deb7u2) ...
Running depmod.
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools
3.2.0-4-kirkwood /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-kirkwood
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood
cp: reading `/sbin/udevd': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_5dxt8L//sbin/udevd':
Input/output error
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-kirkwood with 1.
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return
code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood.postinst line 696.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Should I reboot, try again, reboot, and expect Debian to load the
latest and greatest kernel?