Re: Latest update borks

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2012-03-05 14:46 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote:

> The latest upgrade to Sid has apparently borked creation of initrd.img.
> This is what was upgraded:
>
> sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0
> libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0
>   libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
> libwebkitgtk-1.0-common libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
>   libwebkitgtk-3.0-common linux-libc-dev linux-tools-3.2 ntfs-3g
> xserver-common xserver-xephyr
>   xserver-xorg-core
>
> and this is what happened:
>
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-686

Why are you running such an old kernel?

> FATAL: Module xhci not found.
> FATAL: Module ext4dev not found.
> FATAL: Module af_packet not found.
> FATAL: Module atkbd not found.
> FATAL: Module zfcp not found.
> FATAL: Module dasd_diag_mod not found.
> FATAL: Module dasd_eckd_mod not found.
> FATAL: Module dasd_fba_mod not found.
> FATAL: Module unix not found.
> WARNING: could not open
> /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_bOtJbL/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-686/modules.builtin:
> No such file or directory

The linux-image package for that kernel does not include
/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-686/modules.builtin, which leads to this warning
due to the switch from module-init-tools to kmod.

> I have no idea where to go next ?

Upgrade to a more recent kernel which includes modules.builtin.  Or
ignore the above errors, since they apparently don't cause actual
trouble.

Sven