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On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 10:01 +0100, Ph. Marek wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.12.9-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I had the wrong /boot mounted.
> After reboot I noticed that, got the correct filesystem on there, and did "apt-
> get install --reinstall" - but that stopped with the error message above.
>
> strace showed this:
>
>
> [pid 8236] 09:56:54.538994 symlink("/boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-amd64",
> "initrd.img") = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-amd64 to initrd.img.
>
> So I guess there might be some script that looks at the link, says "it's
> correct, no need to delete", but the symlink() call later on then gets the
> error.
[...]
Can you provide the full strace output, and output of 'ls -l /boot'?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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