Bug#515261: linux-image-xen-686: missing dependancy to xen-linux-system-2.6.26-1-xen-686
severity 515261 important
thanks
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 01:06:38PM +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Justification: breaks the whole system
The kernel is the system, so not applicable.
> When doing a full-upgrade from etch to lenny on a system running xen the xen hypervisor is not updated accordingly.
> A dependancy to xen-linux-system-2.6.26-1-xen-686 is missing which means that grub is configured to use the xen
> hypervisor from etch to run the 2.6.26-xen kernel. Result is an unbootable system.
This can happen with every kernel update. There was plans to add a meta
package for xen-linux-system, but it was never finished.
Bastian
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