Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.118 Severity: normal I just set up a new jessie system and ran dpkg-reconfigure -a -u¹.
This did some stuff to grub-pc (I think) and then left
initramfs-tools broken:
[…]
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Installing for i386-pc platform.
File descriptor 3 (pipe:[3115275]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 9176:
grub-install
File descriptor 3 (pipe:[3115275]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 9176:
grub-install
File descriptor 3 (pipe:[3115275]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 9176:
grub-install
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-586
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-586
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16-2-486
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16-2-486
done
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: initramfs-tools is broken or not fully installed
# dpkg -l initramfs-tools
it initramfs-tools 0.116 all generic modular
initramfs generator
I am failing to reproduce this now, but I'll keep posting news as I find them.
¹) well, since -a was dropped:
dpkg --get-selections | sed -rne
's,([^[:space:]]+)[[:space:]]+install$,\1,p' \
| xargs dpkg-reconfigure -u
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