Bug#413311: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: Install routine fails due to readlink error
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Attempting to do an upgrade produces the following error:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
readlink: invalid option -- m
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
readlink: invalid option -- m
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
Failed to symbolic-link initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
A quick check of the man page for readlink does indeed show that there
is no such option. So, the kernel install is left in a partial state,
and attempting to remove linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 with aptitude attempts
to remove other packages as well, such as linux-image-686.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-18 Yet Another mkInitRD
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-4-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true
* linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-4-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-4-686: true
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