Control: tag -1 moreinfo You wrote: > a booted custom kernel is being used and installing a new kernel package > fails as the initramfs script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ fails In what way does it fail? What are the error messages? > apt-get install linux-image-3.14-2-amd64<enter> was issued > , and mkinitramfs also fails > > ' > mkinitramfs -k -o initrd.img-3.14-2-amd64 > WARNING: missing /lib/modules/3.16.1-xxxx-std-ipv6-64-vps > Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! > depmod: ERROR: could not open directory > /lib/modules/3.16.1-xxxx-std-ipv6-64-vps: No such file or directory > depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory > /dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a directory > mkinitramfs: for root /dev/disk/by-uuid missing disk/by-uuid /sys/block/ > entry > mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most > mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug > ' You didn't specify the kernel version to build for, so mkinitramfs defaulted to the running kernel version. The error handling could definitely be improved here though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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