Package: kernel-package Version: 8.121 Severity: normal
When the /vmlinuz symlink is not present, the postinst of any kernel image package will fail. Any further attempts will also fail until a symlink to any file is created. After the failed attempt, a copy (not a symlink) of the kernel exists as /vmlinuz. # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr_1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 77715 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr 1 (using kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr_1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr ... 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: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-tyr Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Setting up kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr (1) ... /vmlinuz does not exist. Installing from scratch, eh? Or maybe you don't want a symbolic link here. Hmm? Lets See. Failed to symbolic-link /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-tyr to /vmlinuz . dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-image-2.6.10-tyr # ls -lh /vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8M 2005-02-12 20:22 /vmlinuz -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers experimental APT policy: (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-tyr Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.0 Package maintenance system for Deb ii dpkg-dev 1.13.0 Package building tools for Debian ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:3.3.5-1 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.3 [c-compiler] 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.4 [c-compiler] 3.4.3-9 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.0 [c-compiler] 4.0-0pre5 The GNU C compiler ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util ii perl 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
