On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Debian Etch on a white box AMD machine with 1GB RAM, I cannot > update the system. This is what I get: > > myhome:/home/zeev# apt-get update ... > Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/non-free Packages > Fetched 6861kB in 1m33s (73.1kB/s) > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > to correct > the problem. > myhome:/home/zeev# dpkg --configure -a okay, this looks like it succeeded, so I'm not sure why you went through all the dpkg manual stuff, but okay. ... The apt-get below looks like it succeeded, so I'm not sure what the problem is here. initrd got built, grub got updated. Looks successful to me. > myhome:/home/zeev# apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 > Suggested packages: > linux-doc-2.6.18 > The following packages will be upgraded: > linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 607 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/16.2MB of archives. > After unpacking 1896kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 70759 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13 (using > .../linux-image-2.6.18-5-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-17_i386.deb) ... > The directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-486 still exists. Continuing as directed. > Done. > Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 ... > Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub. > You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead! > > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub > Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst > Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-486 > Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done > > Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-5-486 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17) ... > > Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-486/source > However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory > Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-486/source > > Running depmod. > Finding valid ramdisk creators. > Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. > Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled > (2.6.18.dfsg.1-13 was configured last, according to dpkg) > Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled > (2.6.18.dfsg.1-13 was configured last, according to dpkg) > Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. > You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead! > > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub > Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst > Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... > Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-486 > Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done > > myhome:/home/zeev# > I guess you should check the contents of /boot to confirm it's all okay, but I don't see any problems here. A
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