On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:28 +0100, Reto Schoch wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:41:03 +0000 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 12:47 +0100, Christophe wrote: > > > ----- Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> a écrit : > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 13:04 +0100, Christophe wrote: > > > > > Package: initramfs-tools > > > > > Version: 0.123 > > > > > Severity: important > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > Let me know if there is some info you'd need to debug the issue. > > > > > > > > I wonder if busybox got upgraded too late.  Is this reproducible if > you > > > > run 'update-initramfs -u' now? > > > > > > > > Ben. > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > Unfortunately running this command still gives me the error. > > > Out of curiosity I have started some investigations, and the message > comes from the script "mkinitramfs" from this check: > > > > > > if [ "${BUSYBOX}" = "y" ] && [ -z "${BUSYBOXDIR}" ]; then > > > > > > I have seen this: > > >  - BUSYBOX is properly set to "y" from > /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > > >  - BUSYBOXDIR, however, is prepared empty at the beginning of > mkinitramfs, but never given a value afterwards... Any idea how it is > supposed to be defined? > > > > It's done by /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/busybox, which is > > installed by busybox.  Does that file exist? > > > > You originally said: > > > > > This is strange because I seem to have this: > > >  busybox => 1:1.22.0-18 > > >  busybox-static => 1:1.22.0-18 > > > > That's impossible because these packages conflict with each other. > > > > What does "debsums busybox busybox-static" report?  (You might need to > > install the debsums package.) > > > > Ben. > > > > -- > > Ben Hutchings > > Knowledge is power. France is bacon. > > Hi Ben > > I have the same error message. Running 'update-initramfs -u' gives the > following error message: > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-686-pae > E: busybox or busybox-static, version 1:1.22.0-17~ or later, is required > but not installed > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-686-pae with 1. > > It looks like the new version of initramfs-tools treats busybox as > "depends" while it should only be "recommends". > > Can you confirm?
This is explained in the NEWS file. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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