Bug#358397: initramfs-tools: Fails to install

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.57b
Severity: grave

Hi,

        The package fails to install (failure to check if the image is
 modifiable), is the first part. Failure to install makes is
 unuseable. 

,----
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  initramfs-tools
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
| Setting up initramfs-tools (0.57b) ...
| touch: cannot touch `/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15.4-skas3-v9-pre8': Read-only file system
| /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 218: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15.4-skas3-v9-pre8: Read-only file system
| cpio: write error: Broken pipe
| dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
|  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  initramfs-tools
`----

        The init ram fs was not created using initramfs-tools, and yet
 it tries to recreate the initramfs on upgrade, without asking the
 admin, which is an problem in its own right: Why is automated
 regeneration of the initramfs being done? If I want to, I should be
 able to refresh the initrd when I wish it should be updated.

        manoj

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-skas3-v9-pre8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.01-4   Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                          2.6-11     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils                   1.2.4-1    small statically-linked utilities 
ii  udev                          0.087-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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