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Bug#417278: marked as done (Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img.)

Your message dated Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:57:15 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #417278,
regarding Failed to symbolic-link boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img.
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Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
Severity: serious

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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.
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closing as no substantial info and wasn't reproducible.
most probably fixed in newer linux images.

thanks for report.

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