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Title: linux-firmware does not depend on initramfs-tools Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In bug #1646197 the linux-firmware.postinst was added to call update- initramfs (provided by initramfs-tools. If the initramfs-tools package is not installed the installation of linux-firmware will fail. Recreate: sudo apt-get purge --assume-yes '^linux-.*' 'linux-base+' initramfs* sudo apt-get install --assume-yes linux-generic Result: Setting up linux-modules-4.15.0-34-generic (4.15.0-34.37) ... Setting up linux-headers-4.15.0-34 (4.15.0-34.37) ... Setting up linux-headers-4.15.0-34-generic (4.15.0-34.37) ... Setting up initramfs-tools-bin (0.130ubuntu3.3) ... Setting up linux-firmware (1.173.1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-1021-kvm /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 66: .: Can't open /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-1021-kvm with 2. dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--configure): installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 ... Errors were encountered while processing: linux-firmware linux-image-generic linux-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Impact: Builds of minimized images start with an image that has the linux-kvm kernel but lack initramfs-tools. Derivative builds that require a different kernel, linux-generic for example, will purge the existing kernel and install the correct kernel which could pull in linux-firmware and initramfs-tools. In that case the builds fail unless initramfs-tools is installed prior to kernel installation as a workaround for this missing package dependency. This has been recreated on cosmic and bionic, a fix is desired on each. (I was unable to recreate on Xenial but that package lacks the dependency as well). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1792189/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
