Bug#751012: [flash-kernel] Flash-kernel should fail with exit 0 under debrootstrap
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 22:49 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> 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
>From what?
> >> 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.
If this is to do with
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724891 then you don't
need to create an image for that AFAIK.
> >> 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 ?
Apart from in the flash-kernel changelog, no.
Ian.
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