On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start
with digit update-initramfs:
Generating /boot/initrd.img-v dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax:
version number does not start with digit
WARNING: missing /lib/modules/v Device driver support needs thus be
built-in linux image! FATAL: v: not absolute path.
ERROR: could not open directory
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_CEjqBs/lib/modules/3.2.0-2-686-pae:
No such file or directory
FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
Anybody else having this problem ?
Answering my own question - there was a file in /var/lib/initramfs
containing only the single letter "v"...that was causing the problem.
Don't ask how it got there...I dunno.
Sorry for the noise.