Bug#751012: [flash-kernel] Flash-kernel should fail with exit 0 under debrootstrap
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Ian Campbell
<ian.james.campbell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 17:54 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:48:11PM +0000, bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> >
>> >> Package: flash-kernel
>> >> Severity: important
>> >>
>> >> Flash-kernel should detect it run under debrootstrap and fail gracefully/
>> >>
>> >> Install message:
>> >>
>> >> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.18-7) ...
>> >> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.115) ...
>> >> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.14-1-kirkwood
>> >> /bin/df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory
>> >> warning: failed to read mtab
>> >> ^Cdpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
>> >> subprocess installed post-installation script was interrupted
>> >> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> >> initramfs-tools
>> >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am trying to understand which problem exactly you have
>> > encountered, but I am a bit confused: you have filed a bug
>> > against flash-kernel but in the log you have provided, it is not
>> > flash-kernel that shows an error message, but initramfs-tools. I
>> > also cannot see in which context that has happened and how it
>> > relates to debootstrap - by default debootstrap does neither
>> > install a kernel image nor flash-kernel. From your log, it looks
>> > like you have manually interrupted the update-initramfs process,
>> > resulting in the error message above:
>>
>> No I have not interupted.
>
> What is the ^C in the output from? Was it produced verbatim by the
> process?
No it is a left over
>> I have installed te kirkwood kernel and flash-kernel on my chroot.
>
> Out of interest, why?
Because I wand to add support for dns-320 and thus I am creating an image.
>> The problem is that flash-kernel is run by initramfs/post-update.d/flash-kernel
>>
>> I have added an exit 0 at the beginning of this file and everything is ok
>>
>> The best think is to exit 0 if we are under a debootstrap.
>
> If you want to install flash-kernel in a chroot/debootstrap etc then you
> should set FK_MACHINE=none in the environment or write none to
> $chroot/etc/flash-kernel/machine, either of which will cause
> flash-kernel to become a nop.
Is it documented somewhere ?
Bastien
> Alternatively if you want f-k to behave as if it was installing on a
> particular piece of h/w you can use the appropriate DB Machine name,
> although YMMV if that machine requires writing to specific partitions
> etc.
>
> Ian.
>
>
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