Bug#358814: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686: yaird error: bad value in /boot/config-2.6.16-1-686: CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xB0000000 (fatal)

[Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
Version: 2.6.16-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch

$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
Paquets suggérés :
  linux-doc-2.6.16 linux-source-2.6.16
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
0 mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 18 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 15,7Mo dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 46,8Mo d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Réception de : 1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 2.6.16-2 [15,7MB]
15,7Mo réceptionnés en 26s (585ko/s)                                           
Préconfiguration des paquets...
Sélection du paquet linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 précédemment désélectionné.
(Lecture de la base de données... 144190 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Dépaquetage de linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 (à partir de .../linux-image-2.6.16-1-686_2.6.16-2_i386.deb) ...
Done.
Paramétrage de linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 (2.6.16-2) ...

 Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-686/source
 However, I can not read it: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
 Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.16-1-686/source

Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: bad value in /boot/config-2.6.16-1-686: CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xB0000000 (fatal)
mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg : erreur de traitement de linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 (--configure) :
 le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 9
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



I upgraded yaird from 0.0.12-3 to 0.0.12-8 and the problem was solved.

Proposed patch:
I suggest you explicitly use the yaird version
"Depends: yaird (>= 0.0.12-8)" in the debian/control file

0.0.12-8 may not be the minimum version of yaird. But that version
worked for me.

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 depends on:
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-2    tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  yaird [linux-initramfs-tool]  0.0.12-8   Yet Another mkInitRD

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-1-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.3.6-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.16-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.16-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.16-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.16-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.16-1-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.16-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.16-1-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.16-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.16-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.16-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.16-1-686: