Bug#572283: linux-image-2.6.33-2-amd64: Installation error

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:16:43PM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Subject: linux-image-2.6.33-2-amd64: Installation error
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.33-1~experimental.2
> Severity: normal

Thanks for testing!

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> I use 2.6.32.  When installing 2.6.33 I receive (I really hope that the
> system will be usable after that, since it modified several important
> files from /etc, such as fstab :o( ):

All configuration files are backed up with a suffix of '.old' (or '^old'
in one case).  So you can check them and restore those backups if the
script did the wrong thing.

[...]
> Setting up linux-base (2.6.33-1~experimental.2) ...
> Undefined subroutine &DebianKernel::DiskId::disk_id_to_path called at
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 493, <GEN18> line 134.
[...]

Oops.  I will fix this in the next version.

For now, you can either:
a. Remove linux-base.
b. Set the 'boot' parameter in /etc/lilo.conf to the proper path under
   /dev/disk/by-label/ or /dev/disk/by-uuid/ (which is what linux-base
   should have done), then run 'dpkg --configure linux-base'.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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