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Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it anymore. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in. ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008777 Title: [public] initramfs-tools has issue with rootdev-by-UUID Status in The Eilt project: New Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in initramfs-tools source package in Quantal: Won't Fix Bug description: Installing a test kernel deb failed on a system, see error below. I'm guessing this is related to the new dependency flash-kernel has on linux-base, since linux-base from Debian switches the /etc/fstab file to use UUID= mounting, and update-initramfs is having problems identify the blockdev for /. Hacking /etc/mtab to use /dev/sda3 instead of the UUID=<foo> reference works as a volatile workaround. ubuntu@armadaxpZ1a:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a [sudo] password for ubuntu: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp (3.2.0-1603.6~iketest1) ... Running depmod. update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later) The link /boot/initrd.img is a dangling linkto /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.2.0-1603-armadaxp /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp /dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a directory mkinitramfs: for root /dev/disk/by-uuid missing disk/by-uuid /sys/block/ entry mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp with 1. run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp.postinst line 1010. dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1602-armadaxp /dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a directory mkinitramfs: for root /dev/disk/by-uuid missing disk/by-uuid /sys/block/ entry mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-1602-armadaxp with 1. dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-3.2.0-1603-armadaxp initramfs-tools To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eilt/+bug/1008777/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
