Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17 Severity: normal
When there is no grub on the system, at the end of the installation postinst script fails: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ menek:~# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.18 Recommended packages: libc6-i686 The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 55 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/16.3MB of archives. After unpacking 49.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.18-5-686. (Reading database ... 168760 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-17_i386.deb) ... Done. Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17) ... Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/source However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/source Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. The provided postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] could not be run. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this case it would be better if the script gave a warning, that one should manually update bootloader (lilo in my case). I am not sure if it is not a kernel-package bug, because the same happens with my custom made linux-image. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-initrd Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-5-686 recommends: pn libc6-i686 <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-5-686: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-5-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-5-686: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-5-686: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-5-686: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-5-686: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-5-686: true shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-5-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-5-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-5-686: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-5-686: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]