Bug#462872: initramfs-tools: install/update on hppa fails during post-installation with exit status 133"

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

hello,

[ sorry lost track which email you want to have that reply ]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Dirk Van Hertem wrote:
[..snipp..]
> nope, it is installed, but not correctly, each time i install something  
> it reconfigures:
>
> sh-3.1# dpkg -l initramfs-tools
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:  
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> iF  initramfs-tool 0.91d          tools for generating an initramfs
>
>> what does the ouput of:
>> sh -x update-initramfs -u
>>   
> sh -x update-initramfs -u
> + run_bootloader
> + '[' -x /sbin/grub ']'
> + '[' -e /boot/grub/menu.lst ']'
> + '[' -x /usr/sbin/grub ']'
> + '[' -r /etc/lilo.conf ']'
> + '[' -x /sbin/elilo ']'
> + '[' -r /etc/zipl.conf ']'
> + backup_booted_initramfs
> + initramfs_bak=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-parisc64.dpkg-bak
> + '[' '!' -r /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-parisc64.dpkg-bak ']'
> + '[' '!' -r /proc/uptime ']'
> + '[' yes = no ']'
> + '[' '!' -r /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-parisc64.bak ']'
> ++ awk '{printf "%d", $1 / 3600 / 24}' /proc/uptime
> + uptime_days=0
> + '[' -n 0 ']'
> ++ find /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-parisc64.bak -mtime +0
> + boot_initramfs=

are you sure you included everything up to the end?
aboves seems like half a trace of backup_booted_initramfs()
in update-initramfs, what does this output:
find /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-parisc64.bak -mtime +0

>> echo $?
>>   
> 133

tss
return value 133 means a tool was killed with signal 5, which is SIGTRAP
but i have zero idea right now how and why that happens on your box.

-- 
maks