Bug#382472: initramfs-tools: really confused when initrd file has been removed

[Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:32:54AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> please post: 
> ls -l / /boot
> cat /etc/kernel-img.conf

taz has unofficial packages installed, so I did it with foghorn again:

foghorn# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
foghorn# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.17-2-vserver-686 (Debian 2.6.17-9) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060901 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-13)) #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 18:41:34 UTC 2006
foghorn# cd /boot
foghorn# rm initrd.img-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
foghorn# update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.17-2-vserver-686
Cannot create version 2.6.17-2-vserver-686: already exists
foghorn# update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.17-2-vserver-686
sha1sum: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-vserver-686: No such file or directory
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-vserver-686 has been altered.  Cannot update.
foghorn# update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.17-2-vserver-686
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
foghorn# ls -l / /boot
/:
total 26
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  2048 Oct 12 11:52 bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  1024 Oct 14 18:56 boot
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 13360 Oct 14 18:54 dev
drwxr-xr-x 69 root root  3072 Oct 14 18:54 etc
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Oct  8 14:25 home
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1024 Oct  3 05:55 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  3072 Oct 14 18:54 lib
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1024 Oct  3 05:55 media
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1024 Oct 13 00:11 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  1024 Oct  3 18:51 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 70 root root     0 Oct 14 16:39 proc
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  1024 Oct 14 16:52 root
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Oct 14 18:54 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1024 Oct  3 05:55 srv
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root     0 Oct 14 16:39 sys
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root  1024 Oct 14 18:57 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  1024 Oct  3 18:56 usr
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root  1024 Oct  3 19:02 var

/boot:
total 6878
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  693615 Sep 14 00:47 System.map-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   68481 Sep 13 17:47 config-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 Oct  3 18:22 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5007731 Oct 14 18:57 initrd.img-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1237710 Sep 14 00:47 vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-vserver-686
foghorn# cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel Image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = No

Regards,
Carsten