On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:29:17 -0800 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:33:37PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> was heard to say:
> > On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:04:37 -0800
> > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > It appears that the problem here is the call to update-initramfs. If I
> > > force-remove initramfs-tools, I can remove uswsusp just fine. Maybe it
> > > would be a good idea to ignore errors in the initramfs call on remove?
> > > (or
> > > if not, print some visible indication of what went wrong ... this might be
> > > more of an initramfs bug, though)
> >
> > Are you sure the failing of update-initramfs is related to uswsusp? In the
> > postrm
> > it runs update-initramfs to remove all traces of uswsusp from the
> > initramfs.
> > If dpkg did its job there shouldn't be a hook-script left from uswsusp, so
> > the run should be as if uswsusp wasn't their at all.
> >
> > Could you please try to run update-initramfs -u in a terminal to see if it
> > succeeds?
>
> Well, the problem is that while initramfs doesn't print any indication of
> failure, it terminates with exit code 1. (probably this should also be an
> initramfs bug, but I haven't figured out yet just what's causing it to fail)
update-initramfs -u -v
Will give you some more info.
> While you obviously don't want to continue installing uswsusp in this case,
> it seems wrong to me that I can't remove uswsusp either. I can see an
> argument that failing is the right thing to do, though.
I agree that it is annoying you can't remove it easily, but I think
there is no sensible way to fix this. The removal of uswsusp is failing
because update-initramfs is failing. This means you are left with a
potentially unbootable system. You could argue that that is not uswsusp's
fault so it should continue to be removed, but that would be covering
up a problem.
But I think I'll add a message when update-initramfs fails, telling the
user it is update-initramfs' fault.
grts Tim
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