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- Subject: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs failure resulted in broken dpkg and presumably unbootable system
- From: Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:49:25 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20090421214925.GA24725@qusp.dowland>
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.2 Severity: important ~# dpkg --configure -a Setting up initramfs-tools (0.93.2) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 (2.6.26-13) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. Deprecation WARNING: use update-initramfs(8) cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases.conf: Cannot stat: No such file or directory mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686: linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-2-686; however: Package linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 is not installed. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-686 cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases.conf: Cannot stat: No such file or directory update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-686 dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I'm a bit stumped how to get myself out of this one. At the moment I cannot do any dpkg operations and I'm not too confident my system will boot this kernel if I restart it. -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline root=/dev/mapper/qusp--vg1-qusp--lv--root ro -- /proc/filesystems ext3 fuseblk -- lsmod Module Size Used by sha256_generic 11392 0 cbc 3264 1 ipt_MASQUERADE 2656 1 iptable_nat 4900 1 nf_nat 16244 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 11660 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat nf_conntrack 57000 4 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 1920 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4 ip_tables 10128 1 iptable_nat x_tables 13540 3 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_tables i915 48900 2 drm 76456 3 i915 ppdev 6500 0 lp 8140 0 parport 30964 2 ppdev,lp rfcomm 31024 2 l2cap 18336 9 rfcomm bluetooth 47808 4 rfcomm,l2cap uinput 6784 1 ipv6 231536 20 cpufreq_stats 3844 0 cpufreq_powersave 1536 0 cpufreq_conservative 5672 0 cpufreq_userspace 2916 0 michael_mic 2304 2 arc4 1824 2 ecb 2624 2 ieee80211_crypt_tkip 8032 1 aes_i586 7744 3 aes_generic 27784 1 aes_i586 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 4896 1 fuse 44860 1 dm_crypt 11204 1 speedstep_centrino 5568 0 loop 13036 0 pcmcia 30676 0 snd_intel8x0m 12428 0 snd_intel8x0 26172 0 snd_pcm_oss 32128 0 snd_ac97_codec 91716 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 snd_mixer_oss 12256 1 snd_pcm_oss ac97_bus 1728 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy 2628 0 snd_pcm 63332 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_oss 24636 0 snd_seq_midi 5760 0 snd_rawmidi 18784 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 6368 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 41576 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event yenta_socket 21452 1 irtty_sir 4448 0 ipw2200 121960 0 thinkpad_acpi 50352 0 snd_timer 17992 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 6412 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq rsrc_nonstatic 9696 1 yenta_socket sir_dev 11076 1 irtty_sir rfkill 9744 1 thinkpad_acpi ieee80211 25320 1 ipw2200 ieee80211_crypt 5124 3 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee80211 pcmcia_core 30964 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic snd 45912 11 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 6440 1 snd i2c_i801 8176 0 psmouse 36752 0 led_class 3844 1 thinkpad_acpi shpchp 27316 0 snd_page_alloc 8200 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm i2c_core 20948 1 i2c_i801 serio_raw 4836 0 intel_agp 22812 1 pcspkr 2368 0 evdev 8356 12 nvram 7180 2 thinkpad_acpi pci_hotplug 23648 1 shpchp rng_core 3908 0 irda 95368 1 sir_dev video 16848 0 output 2784 1 video battery 10116 0 ac 4164 0 button 6032 0 agpgart 30740 3 drm,intel_agp crc_ccitt 2080 1 irda ext3 105704 4 jbd 41492 1 ext3 mbcache 7396 1 ext3 dm_mirror 12320 0 dm_region_hash 10816 1 dm_mirror dm_log 8548 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash dm_snapshot 15972 0 dm_mod 47188 15 dm_crypt,dm_mirror,dm_log,dm_snapshot ide_gd_mod 19396 4 ata_generic 4644 0 libata 148108 1 ata_generic scsi_mod 135628 1 libata ide_pci_generic 3652 0 piix 5864 3 sdhci_pci 6592 0 sdhci 13860 1 sdhci_pci ide_core 95256 3 ide_gd_mod,ide_pci_generic,piix ehci_hcd 30188 0 uhci_hcd 19632 0 e1000 103780 0 mmc_core 43036 1 sdhci usbcore 122204 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd thermal 15292 0 processor 40044 2 thermal fan 4388 0 thermal_sys 10536 4 video,thermal,processor,fan -- /etc/kernel-img.conf # Kernel image management overrides # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details do_symlinks = yes relative_links = yes do_bootloader = no do_bootfloppy = no do_initrd = yes link_in_boot = no postinst_hook = update-grub postrm_hook = update-grub -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=most BUSYBOX=y KEYMAP=n BOOT=local DEVICE=eth0 NFSROOT=auto -- /etc/crypttab # <target name> <source device> <key file> <options> # crypthome /dev/mapper/qusp--vg1-qusp--lv1--backend none luks -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii cpio 2.9.90-3 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii findutils 4.4.0-3 utilities for finding files--find, ii klibc-utils 1.5.15-1 small utilities built with klibc f ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.140-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends: ii busybox 1:1.10.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed initramfs-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Jon Dowland http://jmtd.net/
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- To: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>, 525072@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: 525072-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#525072: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs failure resulted in broken dpkg and presumably unbootable system
- From: Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:55:35 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20090422145535.GA3783@qusp.dowland>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20090422141449.GA10539@stro.at>
- References: <[🔎] 20090421214925.GA24725@qusp.dowland> <[🔎] 20090422061659.GD7819@baikonur.stro.at> <20090422113206.GA31759@ncl.ac.uk> <[🔎] 20090422141449.GA10539@stro.at>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:14:49PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > please post output of: > ls -l /etc/modprobe.d/arch total 0 aha that could be the culprit: > tree /etc/modprobe.d/ trickier, no tree on this machine (yet), will find do for now? /etc/modprobe.d /etc/modprobe.d/libpisock9.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.dpkg-old /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf.dpkg-old /etc/modprobe.d/aliases /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf /etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases.conf /etc/modprobe.d/mt-st.conf /etc/modprobe.d/ibm_acpi.modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d/arch.conf /etc/modprobe.d/arch.conf/x86_64 /etc/modprobe.d/arch.conf/i386 /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug.conf /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf /etc/modprobe.d/bluez.conf /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS.conf /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat.conf /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/hsf.conflicts.conf /etc/modprobe.d/display_class.conf /etc/modprobe.d/arch /etc/modprobe.d/hsf.conf Just performed rmdir arch mv arch.conf arch and then dpkg --configure -a This appears to have unstuck dpkg/apt! I wonder if I did something dumb like rename 's,^(.*)$,$1.conf' in /etc/modprobe.d to try and shut out Marco's annoying warning messages? Thank you for your help. -- Jon DowlandAttachment: signature.asc
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