Re: mkinitrd busted, breaks initrd kernel-image packages

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

Matt Taggart writes...

> I have increased the severity of #272698 to serious as it breaks mkinitrd 
> (making the package unsuitable for release) which, among other things, breaks
> the installation of initrd kernel-image packages.
> 
> Compounding the problem is that the kernel-image packages successfully 
> install, so if you don't see the error flash by and reboot you're left with a
> broken system :(

I forgot to provide the output of installing a kernel-image package,

Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp (2.6.8-3) ...
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/e2initrd_helper': No such file or directory
ldd: /usr/lib/e2initrd_helper: No such file or directory
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.8-3)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.8-3)
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686-smp
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686-smp
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Also I installed version 1.35-6 of e2fslibs/e2fsprogs and the problem doesn't 
occur. So it was introduced in 1.35-7.

Thanks,

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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org