Bug#463528: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 doesn't pass postinst script without grub
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I've failed to dist-upgrade my Etch server with security updates. I have
no grub installed.
Here is log:
# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... 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.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686.postinst line 583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686.postinst line 583.
The provided postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] could not be run.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686:
linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.18-6-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-686:
linux-image-686 depends on linux-image-2.6-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686
linux-image-2.6-686
linux-image-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1) ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-6-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-6-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-6-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
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