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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.78
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Kernel updates give this result:
orca:/home/pete# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.78) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-k7-smp
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
orca:/home/pete#
Other info:
orca:/home/pete# uname -a
Linux orca 2.6.16-2-k7-smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 18 20:11:58 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
orca:/home/pete# cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = yes
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
orca:/home/pete# dpkg -l grub
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================-============================-========================================================================
ii grub 0.97-13 GRand Unified Bootloader
Lilo is *not* installed on this system.
Best,
-- pete
-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/hda1 ro
-- /proc/filesystems
cramfs
ext3
ext2
xfs
-- lsmod
Module Size Used by
nfs 194068 1
lockd 55720 2 nfs
nfs_acl 3776 1 nfs
sunrpc 137444 4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
loop 15624 4
button 6864 0
ac 5124 0
battery 9796 0
ipv6 231232 16
xfs 494968 4
exportfs 6016 1 xfs
ext2 59528 0
dm_mod 49748 0
ide_generic 1664 0 [permanent]
ide_cd 36512 0
cdrom 32880 1 ide_cd
snd_emu10k1_synth 7104 0
snd_emux_synth 31616 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 7168 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul 6208 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy 4036 0
snd_seq_oss 29412 0
snd_seq_midi 8544 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7360 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47564 9 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_emu10k1 102564 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi 23648 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 83552 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 2624 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 45024 0
snd_mixer_oss 16256 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 77316 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_device 8844 8 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 21956 3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10312 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4800 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
mousedev 11200 1
shpchp 40288 0
pci_hotplug 25340 1 shpchp
snd_hwdep 9156 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
tsdev 7744 0
snd 48928 13 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
amd_k7_agp 8460 0
evdev 9280 0
agpgart 30152 1 amd_k7_agp
i2c_amd756 6532 0
rtc 12852 0
eth1394 19652 0
psmouse 35208 0
emu10k1_gp 3968 0
gameport 14856 2 emu10k1_gp
serio_raw 7236 0
i2c_core 20288 1 i2c_amd756
soundcore 9504 1 snd
amd76x_edac 4544 0
edac_mc 13832 1 amd76x_edac
pcspkr 3780 0
floppy 57744 0
ext3 119560 2
jbd 51924 1 ext3
mbcache 8580 2 ext2,ext3
ide_disk 15232 4
sd_mod 17088 4
generic 4676 0 [permanent]
3w_9xxx 30240 1
ehci_hcd 28488 0
3w_xxxx 25056 1
scsi_mod 124972 3 sd_mod,3w_9xxx,3w_xxxx
e1000 98740 0
amd74xx 13212 0 [permanent]
ide_core 114636 5 ide_generic,ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,amd74xx
ohci1394 30896 0
ieee1394 88632 2 eth1394,ohci1394
ohci_hcd 18436 0
usbcore 114400 3 ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
thermal 13640 0
processor 26216 1 thermal
fan 4996 0
-- kernel-img.conf
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = yes
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.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 1.4.27-1 small statically-linked utilities
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 0.093-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.79
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_0.79.dsc
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.79.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.79.tar.gz
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.79.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.79_all.deb
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.79_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 386999@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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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:10:19 +0200
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.79
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
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: 360281 386999
Changes:
initramfs-tools (0.79) unstable; urgency=high
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* update-initramfs: Allow create and delete to work on "all" kernelversions.
Fixes bug on update to pass all the specified optional args.
Thanks to Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> for the patch. (closes: 360281)
Improve it to parse args once and also highlight 'all' on usage.
.
* update-initramfs.8: Document usage of "all" + add example section.
.
* update-initramfs: On update check if /boot is ro, warn and exit.
Thanks to formorer to improve the awk snippet.
.
* update-initramfs: run_lilo don't return 1 if no lilo executable is there.
Thanks "Peter D. St. Onge" <pete.stonge@utoronto.ca> for the report.
(closes: 386999)
Files:
6542e73aa2dfbd72fcca0d851ba4481e 623 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.79.dsc
5bc3f399c70a24a1ec82d67a5f7176e6 49904 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.79.tar.gz
6b1a48c7ec0d896df9d83341bae7ac13 55828 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.79_all.deb
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