Re: Bug#258520: kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac: fail to install

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:39:17AM -0300, Rafael Avila de Espindola wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac
> Version: 2.4.25-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> I need to install this package in order to build debian-installer, but when installing it on a system with kernel kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc and LVM the install fails:
> 
> tux13:/home/rafael# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   kernel-doc-2.4.25
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/2386kB of archives.
> After unpacking 4686kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac.
> (Reading database ... 24952 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac (from .../kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb) ...
> Setting up kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac (2.4.25-8) ...
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /lib/modules/2.4.25-powerpc-small: Not a directory
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: MODULES needs to be set to none?
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I suppose this is because you have do_initrd set to Yes in
/etc/kernel-img.conf. Not sure what can be done about this though.

Also, i suppose you don't have kernel-modules-2.4.25-powerpc installed,
do you ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther