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Bug#413458: marked as done (undeclared linux dependency on etch coreutils, affects upgrade path?)

Your message dated Mon, 2 Apr 2007 00:36:21 +0200
with message-id <20070401223621.GA31374@javifsp.no-ip.org>
and subject line Documentation updated, bug fixed
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Attempting to do an upgrade produces the following error:

    Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11) ...
    Running depmod.
    Finding valid ramdisk creators.
    Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
    readlink: invalid option -- m
    Try `readlink --help' for more information.
    readlink: invalid option -- m
    Try `readlink --help' for more information.
    Failed to symbolic-link initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img.
    dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

A quick check of the man page for readlink does indeed show that there
is no such option. So, the kernel install is left in a partial state,
and attempting to remove linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 with aptitude attempts
to remove other packages as well, such as linux-image-686.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.30.13  Debian configuration management sy
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  yaird [linux-initramfs-tool]  0.0.12-18  Yet Another mkInitRD

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-4-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true
* linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-4-686:
  linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-4-686: true

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--- Begin Message --- 
The documentation no longer describes the coreutils dependency as it has been
fixed in the latest linux-image- packages.

Regards

Javier

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