Bug#401331: initramfs-tools: lilo failures in update-initramfs are silent.

[David Anselmi <anselmi@anselmi.us>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.85b
Severity: normal

When lilo -t fails update-initramfs exits with an error (due to set -e)
but provides no indication to the user.  When called in postinst the
failure is reported by, e.g., aptitude but there is no explanation of
what went wrong.

This could leave a system unbootable if update-initramfs is run outside
of package management (where the failure is invisible) or if the user doesn't
realize an upgrade failure might be serious.

I suggest that the stderr of lilo -t should at least be provided to the
user, or perhaps run_lilo() should do set +e and then complain loudly if
lilo -t fails.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=fd00

-- /proc/filesystems
	cramfs
	ext3

-- lsmod
[ Snip.  Not relavent to this bug. ]

-- kernel-img.conf
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

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                   1.4.30-1   small statically-linked utilities 
ii  module-init-tools             3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
pn  udev                          <none>     (actually this is installed
                                              but has failed at the moment due
                                              to lilo being broken)

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information