Hi Ben, Thanks for quick response.
I ran the commands as suggested, and I get and warnings and errors on the second command. mabo@debian:~$ sudo dpkg --configure initramfs-tools Setting up initramfs-tools (0.125) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 W: mkinitramfs: unsupported MODULES setting: . W: mkinitramfs: Falling back to MODULES=most. E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth failed with return 1. update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools Unfortunately, I still have the same problem. mabo@debian:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up initramfs-tools (0.125) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 66: .: Can't open /etc/initramfs- tools/initramfs.conf update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 with 2. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 03:26:27 +0000 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > Control: retitle -1 mkinitramfs doesn't work without a configuration file > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 09:48 +0800, Marc Bonnor wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.125 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > When I do package updates I see errors; > > > > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.125) ... > > update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ... > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 > > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 66: .: Can't open /etc/initramfs- > > tools/initramfs.conf > > It appears that you deleted a configuration file. This is currently a > fatal error. > > > update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-2-amd64 with 2. > > dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): > > Â subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > > status 2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > Â initramfs-tools > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > I see that the initramfs-tools package is partially installed when I > > view package in Aptitude. > > I have tried to reinstall several times, and I have tried to > > downgrade package to stable version, but nothing works. > > dpkg considers deletion of a conffile (a configuration file that it > knows about) to be deliberate, so it won't re-create the conffile on > upgrade by default. > > You should be able to recover like this: > > touch /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > dpkg --configure initramfs-tools # will warn but should succeed > rm /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > apt -d --reinstall install initramfs-tools-core > dpkg -i --force-confnew /var/cache/apt/archives/initramfs-tools- core_0.125_all.deb > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.