Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 Severity: serious --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Latest kernel package does not install correctly: # LANG=C aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Failed to symbolic-link boot/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: Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Failed to symbolic-link boot/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 # ls -la / | grep 2.6. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-03-23 07:12 initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-07-05 14:20 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686-smp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-03-23 07:12 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2006-07-05 14:20 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686-smp "rm /initrd.img /vmlinuz" fixed it for me, but it seems no general solution. With kind regards, Jan. -- Never write mail to <waja@spamfalle.info>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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