Bug#310420: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686: does not boot (fails in init) after upgrading from 2.6.11-3
Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686
Version: 2.6.11-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I upgraded from 2.6.11-3 to 2.6.11-5 (dist-upgrade) and the kernel fails
to boot with error messages indicating that a few files cannot be found.
The transcripts of upgrade sessions and the error messages while booting
follow:
$ agdu
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 90899 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 2.6.11-3 (using .../kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686_2.6.11-5_i386.deb) ...
The directory /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-686 still exists. Continuing as directed.
Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 ...
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-686
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1-686
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
Found kernel: /memtest86.bin
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 (2.6.11-5) ...
dpkg: warning, architecture `i686-pc-linux-gnu' not in remapping table <=== is this ok?
dpkg: warning, architecture `i686-pc-linux-gnu' not in remapping table <=== is this ok?
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.11-3)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.11-3)
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-686
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1-686
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
Found kernel: /memtest86.bin
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
While booting (messages hand typed - I did not find a way to capture
these as the boot process failed):
[snip]
hda: Host Protected Area disabled.
hda: 78156288 sectors (40016 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 >
Kernel can not convert a name into desc number
Check your 'root=' argument passed on boot by bootloader.
initrd-tools: 0.1.80
/sbin/init: 360: cannot open bin/root: no such file
umount: bin: not mounted
/sbin/init: 362: cannot create proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev: Directory non existant
cat: proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
umount: proc not mounted
[snip]
After this, the messages from 'Kernel can not...' are repeated in a loop.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.80 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
-- no debconf information
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