Re: trouble with custom kernel

[Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com>]

2009/6/16 Bernd Prager <bernd@prager.ws>:
> Hi,
>
> I have been building custom kernels for my system a while now.
> Recently I run into trouble that I haven't experienced before:
>
> I build my kernel with:
> $ make menuconfig
> $ make-kpkg clean
> $ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image
> kernel_headers
>
> When I try to install I get now following error:
> $ dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.30-custom_2.6.30-custom-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
> (Reading database ... 136073 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking linux-image-2.6.30-custom (from
> linux-image-2.6.30-custom_2.6.30-custom-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb) ...
> Done.
> dpkg: error processing
> linux-image-2.6.30-custom_2.6.30-custom-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/lib/firmware/mts_edge.fw', which is also in package
> linux-image-2.6.29.1-custom
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.
> 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-2.6.29.1-custom
> Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-14-generic
> Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> linux-image-2.6.30-custom_2.6.30-custom-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
>
> Any suggestion what to do?
>
> Thanks you,
> -- Bernd
>

Temporarily rename /lib/firmware/mts_edge.fw to something else (eg.
/lib/firmware/mts_edge.fw.old) and reinstall 2.6.30

regards
-r