Bug#751012: [flash-kernel] Flash-kernel should fail with exit 0 under debrootstrap
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Ian Campbell
<ian.james.campbell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Yes it is for it. Itis a chicken and egg problem. I boot from usb key
and I have created a usb 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 ?
>
> Apart from in the flash-kernel changelog, no.
Could be mentioned in the man page ?
Bastien
> Ian.
>
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