Bug#435560: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: initrd creation fails with yaird

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

reassign 435560 yaird
quit

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:05:54PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Here is a paste from aptitude's output:

> Setting up linux-image-2.6.22-1-686 (2.6.22-3) ...
> Running depmod.
> Finding valid ramdisk creators.
> Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
> yaird error: unrecognised line in /proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq= (fatal)
> mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
> Failed to create initrd image.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.22-1-686 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9

> I will reboot with a different kernel and try a to reinstall. I will 
> post back if it works.

A yaird problem; yaird seems unmaintained since the release of etch, and is
not coping with recent kernel changes.  You probably want to use
initramfs-tools instead.

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