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Bug#580467: Reopen 580453: linux-base & linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 post-install: "... uninitialized value $label_len ..."



On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 19:44 -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> reopen   580467 !  
> 
> thanks
> 
> Rebooting might have helped Simon Chopin's system, but the bug
> consistently remains on mine after many reboots.  
> 
> Chopin seems hasty in closing this.  This error message _did_
> show up on his system:
> 
> 	Use of uninitialized value $label_len in numeric gt (>) at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1338.
> 
> It didn't show up twice for him, but it still showed once.

I see two problems in each of the bug reports:

1. $label_len is not initialised properly. This is a real bug in the
postinst script, and a fix for it is pending.

2. dosfslabel detected a broken filesystem and so failed to set the
label. Please check that the filesystems linux-base proposed to relabel
are valid. You might need to purge it in order to go through the upgrade
questions again.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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