Bug#466499: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686: preinst script aborts on install without an obvious reason

[Matthias Mueller <mueller@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1
Severity: wishlist


I encountered the following problem on 2 systems, that were upgraded 
several times from older debian stable releases and used custom compiled 
kernels before.
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 aborted after the preinst 
script with the message 'Ok, Aborting'
The reason was a missing 'do_initrd = Yes' statement in 
/etc/kernel-img.conf and debconf set to Noninteractive. After changing 
debconf to Dialog it was obvious what was missing.
Additional information instead of only 'Ok, Aborting' would be nice (and 
would shorten the time to find the configuration error ;-)

-- 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 2.6.19
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)