On January 1, 2018 3:54:02 AM GMT+03:00, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 07:19:06PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 06:00:44PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I just upgraded devuan from jessie to ascii. I now have a new >kernel. >> > >> > Now I'm used to, when a new kernel is installed, that the boot >process >> > is also updated to boot the new kernel. But this has not happened. >> > >> > I still hae the same old /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which specified the >same >> > old kernel and initrd. >> > >> > Hand-editing this isn;t enough, becuase I also don't have a new >initrd >> > for the new kernel. >> >> So I try >> >> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# update-initramfs -u >> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae >> /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 66: .: Can't open >/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf >> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae with >2. >> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# ls /etc/initramfs-tools/ >> conf.d initramfs.conf.dpkg-new modules update-initramfs.conf >> hooks initramfs.conf.dpkg-remove scripts >update-initramfs.conf.dpkg-new >> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik# >> >> It looks as if no initrd is generated because there's no >> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf >> >> And that because of an upgrade problem, either now or in the past. >> >> This isn't good for novices trying to upgrade. Will investigate. > >Started interactive aptitude, looking for packages with names like >initramfs-tools. Found it in state 'u', unconfigured. And there were >*oodles* of packages in that same state. I told aptitude 'g' and let >iit have its way with them. It configures a lot of packages. More or >less what I thought the apt-get upgraded had already done. After that, > >there was an initrd, and the boot stanzas in /etc/grub/gru.cfg had been > >properly updated. > >So what may need attention is this: Why wasn't the earlier >dist-upgrade >sufficient? > >-- hendrik I'm guessing somewhere in your dist-upgrade your apt exploded and left unconfigured packages.
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