On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:04:57PM -0000, Paul Taylor wrote:
> First, is this a legitimate possibility?

Yes, it is.

> Even if it is, could it be eliminated by generating a dummy initramfs, even
> where it is not needed

No, because the entire problem is that update-grub is being called (for a
reason that I presume is legitimate) before the kernel postinst has a chance
to do its job, and then kernel package installation is somehow failing to
call update-grub afterwards.  So the only reliable point at which we would
generate the dummy initramfs is the same point at which we generate the real
one.

> Finally, I noticed from a search of lauchpad that there have actually been
> lots of reports of this bug, dating back to 2006.

It is probable that most of these are false-positives due to broken
configurations (/etc/kernel-img.conf) or other bugs that have already been
fixed.  For that matter, the bug you describe is not the same as the one
originally reported by psl and confirmed by Ante; conflating the two issues
in a single bug report makes it harder to get to the root of either bug. 
The ubiquity bug really should have been opened as a separate bug report.

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