Bug#361308: Fails to install 2.6.15: "dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (--configure):"
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-486
Version: 2.6.15-8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hello,
2.6.15 kernel just fails to install (similarly to 2.6.16 from unstable):
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[Linux]honeyman@srv-castle:/boot$ LANG=C sudo aptitude install linux-image-2.6.15-1-486
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apcupsd asterisk
asterisk-config binutils bittornado bsdutils cpio cpp-4.0 curl
ethereal-common exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light g++-4.0
gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base gcc-4.0-doc gcc-4.0-locales gobjc-4.0 gzip
klibc-utils libapr0 libasn1-6-heimdal libc6 libc6-dev libcrypt-cbc-perl
libcupsys2-gnutls10 libcurl3 libgcc1 libgnutls11 libgpg-error0
libgssapi1-heimdal libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
libhtml-template-perl libice6 libidn11 libklibc libkrb5-17-heimdal
libkrb53 libobjc1 libpcre3 libperl5.8 libpq4 libselinux1 libsensors3
libsepol1 libsm6 libsnmp-base libsnmp5 libssl0.9.7 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6
libstdc++6-4.0-dev libusb-0.1-4 libx11-6 libxaw7 libxext6 libxft1 libxi6
libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxp6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxt6 libxtrap6 libxtst6
lm-sensors locales lsb-base mc mldonkey-server module-init-tools mount
ntp ntp-doc ntp-server ntp-simple odbcinst1debian1 openssh-client
openssh-server openssl perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules proftpd
proftpd-common python2.3 samba samba-common sensord smbclient smbfs squid
squid-cgi squid-common ssh sudo tar tcpdump tethereal udev unixodbc unzip
usbutils util-linux vim vim-common xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-data xterm
xutils zlib1g zsh
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 123 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.8MB of archives. After unpacking 45.9MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.15-1-486.
(Reading database ... 48604 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (from .../linux-image-2.6.15-1-486_2.6.15-8_i386.deb) ...
Done.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (2.6.15-8) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
Running postinst hook /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (2.6.15-8) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.15-8 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.15-8 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
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To note: currently I am running linux-image-2.6.14-2-386 version 2.6.14-6, and it did not have such problems.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-386
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 depends on:
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-9 Yet Another mkInitRD
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/initrd-2.6.15-1-486:
* linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.15-1-486: false
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.15-1-486:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.15-1-486: false
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/abort-install-2.6.15-1-486:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.15-1-486:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.15-1-486:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.15-1-486: true
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.15-1-486:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.15-1-486:
linux-image-2.6.15-1-486/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.15-1-486: false
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