Bug#573249: Fails to configure with dosfslabel failed

[Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>]

Package: linux-base
Version: 2.6.33-1~experimental.2
Severity: serious

Setting up linux-base (2.6.33-1~experimental.2) ...
open: No such file or directory
dosfslabel failed: 1536 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1087, <STDIN> line 10.
dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
 status 9

The line in the postinst reads,

 system('dosfslabel', $bdev, $label) == 0 or die "dosfslabel failed: $?";;

Commenting out this line fixes the problem. The configure proceeds and
warns that /dev/hda label may change, or similar. Of course, /dev/hda
is a cdrom device so not sure why configure would even try touching
it.

Running `dosfslabel` on /dev/hda1 results in the same error as from the
postinst script.

$ sudo dosfslabel /dev/hda
Logical sector size is zero.
$ sudo dosfslabel /dev/hda1
open: No such file or directory

Now, /dev/hda1 is not listed in any configfile... :/

- Adam


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages linux-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libapt-pkg-perl               0.1.24     Perl interface to libapt-pkg

linux-base recommends no packages.

linux-base suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  linux-base/disk-id-manual:
* linux-base/disk-id-convert-auto: true
* linux-base/disk-id-convert-plan: true