Bug#586554: initramfs-tools fails to upgrade from 0.96.1 to 0.97

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:02:03AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
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> On 2010???06???28??? 17:31, maximilian attems wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:16:40PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
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> >> Image Scan! for Linux upstream maintainer here.
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> >> Care to point out why iscan is the culprit?  I went through the logs but
> >> nothing ran a bell.
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> > you are sending the message to the wrong recipient.
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> > we do not maintain that iscan software, nor their initramfs-tools hooks
> > please nag them.
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> # I'd have to nag myself then.  I maintain iscan.
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> Let me put the question differently then.  What exactly led to the
> conclusion that iscan's initramfs hooks are the culprit.
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> There is nothing in the log that gives me any clues about why iscan is
> the culprit.  The hook provided by iscan is so trivial (and has worked
> fine upto at leat 0.94.4) that I don't see what is wrong.

I haven't looked at the iscan hook script yet. The difference in
initramfs-tools is that now the hooks are run under errexit and
thus may abort. afair it has been determined that your hook script
fails (mkinitramfs needs to be more explicit about what goes on).