Bug#407268: kernel-image: (re)configure kernel fails

[Sergey Zhumatiy <serg@vvv.srcc.msu.su>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp
Version: 2.6.8-16sarge6
Severity: normal
File: kernel-image


  While package setup it fails with diagnostics:
  
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp (2.6.8-16sarge6) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: line 1: genromfs -d /tmp/mkinitrd.eLHxJZ/initrd -f
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686-smp.new: No such file or directory
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
 
  Running kernel version may be 2.4 (from package) or 2.6 (selfmade),
result is always the same. I can run mkinitrd from commandline - it
works.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-vvv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.81.1   tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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