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Bug#529222: Bug remains in 0.93.3



On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Don Pellegrino wrote:

> Sorry I don't know why I have elilo installed.  I don't even know what
> it does.  I was able to purge it without any dependency problems
> reported:
> 
> # dpkg --purge elilo
> (Reading database ... 231745 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing elilo ...
> Purging configuration files for elilo ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> 
> After removing elilo the issue is resolved:

had assumed so.
 
> # dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.93.3) ...
> update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
> 
> Nice catch.  I would have never thought to do that.  Thanks for the
> help.  I don't know how this bug should be handled but removing elilo is
> a reasonable work-around for me.

well having randomly installed non configured bootloaders
is known to have bad results.
before initramfs-tools was checking elilo with a wrong path,
thus it never got noticed.

nice greetings

-- 
maks



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