Re: dselect stopped after trying to update menu.lst
[KS] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to
> see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything,
> so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any.
>
> I was upgrading my system using dselect and after purging
> linux-image-2.6.14-2-686, it was probably doing something related to
> splash image (I didn't have splash image on the machine before this
> upgrade). It didn't find any splash image and said "skipping...". It
> updated menu.lst and now is sitting there doing nothing :( There were
> two initramfs related bugs marked as critical #361270 and #358397. I
> wonder if one of those were a reason of this behaviour!
>
> I will leave it running till the morning so as to wait for
> responses/suggestions on how to proceed from here.
>
> Thanks,
> /ks
>
> Fetched 105MB in 6m20s (275kB/s)
> Reading package fields... Done
> Reading package status... Done
> Retrieving bug reports... Done
> grave bugs of python-cairo (-> 2.4, 2.3) <done>
> #325379 - python-cairo: undefined symbol: cairo_ps_surface_create
> critical bugs of initramfs-tools (-> 0.68b) <open>
> #361270 - update-initrams doesn't call lilo, when grub is around
> grave bugs of busybox ( -> 1:1.1.3-2) <open>
> #163501 - busybox: cp -a doesn't copy symlinks
> grave bugs of initramfs-tools (-> 0.68b) <open>
> #358397 - initramfs-tools: Fails to install
> grave bugs of python-gnome2 (-> 2.12.4-3) <open>
> #354614 - foomatic-gui: segfaults when invoked
> Summary:
> python-cairo(1 bug), busybox(1 bug), initramfs-tools(2 bugs),
> python-gnome2(1 bug)
> Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
> Reading changelogs... Done
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 146544 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing aptitude ...
> Purging configuration files for aptitude ...
> Removing libgnome-menu0 ...
> Purging configuration files for libgnome-menu0 ...
> Removing libreadline4 ...
> Purging configuration files for libreadline4 ...
> (Reading database ... 146521 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libtasn1-2-bin ...
> (Reading database ... 146507 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 ...
> Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 ...
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
> Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1-686
> Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
>
>
>
It seems that linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 was causing some problems.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.14-2-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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