Bug#295422: kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp: unable to install new kernels
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp
Version: 2.6.8-8
Severity: normal
After installing the amd64 kernel, I am unable to install any other
kernels. I see this:
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic (from
.../kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic_100_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-generic (2.6.8-8) ...
cpio: (0x00000000): No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `(0x00000000)': No such file or directory
run-parts: /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs exited with return
code 1
Failed to create initrd image.
After some amd64 users mailing list postings, I found out that I needed
e2fsprogs >= version 1.35-7. At this version, a "grep -v linux-gate.so"
line was added in /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs, which is
required for initrd to work with 64-bit kernels.
Thus, for amd64 kernels, I would propose a version dependency of
e2fsprogs >= 1.35-7 to fix this in the future.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.77 tools to create initrd image for p
ii module-init-tools 3.1-rel-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
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