Bug#336566: yaird error: error running modprobe auto (fatal) when installing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7

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

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:42:35PM +1300, Srdjan wrote:
> Gladly, but I don't know where to look for it. What I did was upgrade 
> linux-image-2.6-k7, which pulled linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7,
> which pulled yaird. The output is:
> 
> Using /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
> Full list of probed ramdisk generating tools : /usr/sbin/mkinitrd 
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.
> yaird error: error running modprobe auto (fatal)
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

You can start with telling about your hardware, what your fstab looks like,
and where your root filesystem is. output of lspci and content /proc/cpuinfo
and /etc/fstab are welcome.

I kind of suspect that your root filesystem has no explicit filesystem choice,
but auto, so changing this auto to ext3 or whatever your filesystem is should
solve the problem.

Friendly,

Sven Luther