Package: memtest86+ Version: 4.00-2.3 Severity: normal When trying to upgrade memtest86+ from 4.00-2.2 to 4.00-2.3 I get the following error: ====================================================================== Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 480652 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace memtest86+ 4.00-2.2 (using .../memtest86+_4.00-2.3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement memtest86+ ... /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). dpkg: warning: subprocess old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/memtest86+_4.00-2.3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/memtest86+_4.00-2.3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Press return to continue. ======================================================================
Both "mount" and /proc/mounts think that /dev is mounted: ====================================================================== j...@paranoia:~/src/dune2/UG/ug/parallel$ mount /dev/dm-2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda5 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=4g) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) ====================================================================== ====================================================================== j...@paranoia:~/src/dune2/UG/ug/parallel$ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=1968292k,nr_inodes=492073,mode=755 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0 /dev/mapper/Paranoia-Root_crypt / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0 /dev/sda5 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime,size=4194304k 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0 j...@paranoia:~/src/dune2/UG/ug/parallel$ ====================================================================== My setup is / on dm-crypt on lvm, and /boot on its own non-excrypted partition. Jö. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages memtest86+ depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy memtest86+ recommends no packages. Versions of packages memtest86+ suggests: ii grub 0.97-61 GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy pa pn hwtools <none> (no description available) pn kernel-patch-badram <none> (no description available) pn memtest86 <none> (no description available) pn memtester <none> (no description available) ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files -- debconf information: shared/memtest86-run-lilo: false -- Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep -- unknown source
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