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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade if lilo is not installed
- From: Anthony Callegaro <callytic@free.fr>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:29:58 +0100
- Message-id: <20060828092958.18659.82647.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.76
Severity: important
Hi all,
I've seen lots of discussion already on the initramfs/lilo dependency when
people are using grub, but I didn't see any report of my issue.
I'm using grub only (lilo is not installed) on my machine and during the last
2 upgrades of initramfs-tools I received the following error message :
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-k7
/usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 88: lilo: command not found
I resolved the issue with a simple
touch /usr/sbin/lilo
chmod +x /usr/sbin/lilo
But I wondered what would have happened if lilo WAS installed. As I'm using grub
it would certainly have broken my boot...
If I remember correctly the issue started with 0.75 (at least I remember only
having to use the above workaround only twice).
Let me know if you need more info, I'll be glad to help.
Cheers
Anthony
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791
-- /proc/filesystems
cramfs
reiserfs
vfat
iso9660
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 33020 1
nvidia 3929132 12
vmnet 28460 9
vmmon 167180 0
binfmt_misc 11272 1
ipx 26340 0
p8023 2432 1 ipx
xt_limit 3008 8
xt_tcpudp 3392 21
iptable_mangle 3136 0
ipt_LOG 6400 8
ipt_MASQUERADE 3968 0
ip_nat 17132 1 ipt_MASQUERADE
ipt_TOS 2560 0
ipt_REJECT 5440 1
ip_conntrack_irc 7024 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 7920 0
xt_state 2496 6
ip_conntrack 48672 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,xt_state
nfnetlink 6936 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
iptable_filter 3328 1
ip_tables 13348 2 iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables 13572 8 xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables
ppdev 8772 0
lp 11108 0
ipv6 224416 12
wlan_wep 6848 1
nls_iso8859_1 4480 2
nls_cp437 6144 1
vfat 12288 1
fat 47196 1 vfat
dm_snapshot 15968 0
dm_mirror 19152 0
dm_mod 50456 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
w83781d 29480 0
hwmon_vid 2880 1 w83781d
i2c_isa 5184 1 w83781d
ide_generic 1664 0 [permanent]
snd_emu10k1_synth 7232 0
snd_emux_synth 30848 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 7168 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 6208 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy 4100 0
snd_seq_oss 28928 0
snd_seq_midi 8416 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7424 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 46736 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
shpchp 34528 0
snd_emu10k1 101668 4 snd_emu10k1_synth
tsdev 7680 0
mousedev 11108 1
snd_rawmidi 23200 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 82976 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 2624 1 snd_ac97_codec
pci_hotplug 27516 1 shpchp
evdev 9344 2
snd_pcm_oss 36768 1
snd_mixer_oss 16192 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 74948 4 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device 8012 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 21124 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9800 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4864 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8964 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
wlan_scan_sta 12480 1
ath_pci 81888 0
ath_rate_sample 13376 1 ath_pci
wlan 169628 5 wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
ath_hal 191824 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
ali_agp 6912 1
agpgart 30152 2 nvidia,ali_agp
eth1394 18564 0
snd 48548 16 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
i2c_ali1535 6852 0
i2c_ali15x3 7556 0
parport_pc 32612 1
parport 33544 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
soundcore 9440 2 snd
i2c_core 19904 4 w83781d,i2c_isa,i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3
pwc 45948 0
emu10k1_gp 4096 0
8250_pnp 8960 0
compat_ioctl32 1728 1 pwc
gameport 14600 2 emu10k1_gp
pcspkr 3328 0
psmouse 34888 0
serio_raw 6852 0
videodev 9216 1 pwc
rtc 12724 0
floppy 54788 0
reiserfs 214208 3
usbhid 36064 0
ide_cd 36128 1
cdrom 32864 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 15360 7
ohci1394 30960 0
ieee1394 88056 2 eth1394,ohci1394
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generic 4676 0 [permanent]
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usbcore 112384 5 pwc,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ne2k_pci 10784 0
8390 9600 1 ne2k_pci
thermal 13128 0
processor 25800 1 thermal
fan 4804 0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii busybox 1:1.1.3-3 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii cpio 2.6-17 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii klibc-utils 1.4.19-2 small statically-linked utilities
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 0.098-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.78
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initramfs-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
initramfs-tools_0.78.dsc
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.78.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.78.tar.gz
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.78.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.78_all.deb
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.78_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 384967@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> (supplier of updated initramfs-tools package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:38:13 +0200
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.78
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Description:
initramfs-tools - tools for generating an initramfs
Closes: 384967 385226 385252 385281 385624 385641
Changes:
initramfs-tools (0.78) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* update-initramfs: Check in call_lilo() if /sbin/lilo is executable,
when /etc/lilo.conf exists (closes: 384967) - thus urgency medium.
.
* init: Guard all dirs against creation. (closes: 385281)
.
* debian/scripts: Add /etc/kernel-img.conf section, as update-initramfs
needs to act according to it.
.
* scripts/nfs: Fix parsing of etherboot ip options. Based on a patch by
to Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org>. (closes: 385252)
.
* scripts/nfs: No need to duplicate work of ntfsmount. Thanks for the patch
to Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org>. (closes: 385226)
.
* scripts/nfs: Add an sleep 0.1 in the retry loop to slow down retry
attempts. Only log "Retrying .." after first run. Use init variable.
(closes: 385624)
.
* init: Reorder the early mknod after tmpfs mount. (closes: 385641)
.
* initramfs.conf.5, mkinitramfs, scripts/local, scripts/local-top/mdrun,
scripts/nfs, update-initramfs.8, debian/changelog: Whitespace policy.
Files:
48b266caef6741c9300ae6906935f584 623 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.78.dsc
7a365ed4662482cec65ef1dd90bf9801 49450 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.78.tar.gz
d97e7fdf4901eb5886b63b48b3e12089 55206 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.78_all.deb
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