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Bug#336418: kernel-package: no suitable ramdisk generation tool w/ 2.6.14

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Edward J. Shornock

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Oct 30, 2005, 1:40:06 AM10/30/05
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Package: kernel-package
Version: 9.008.4
Severity: normal

When installing a newly built kernel, I received the following error
message:

# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7_workstation.1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7.
(Reading database ... 173674 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 (from linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7_workstation.1_i386.deb) ...

You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
2.6.14-1-k7) while running a kernel of version 2.6.14-rc4-1-k7, but
you have no suitable ramdisk generation tool installed among
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs. This will break the installation, unless a
suitable ramdisk generation tool is also being installed right
now.

Could not find . at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 228.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 (workstation.1) ...
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.14-1-k7 on running kernel 2.6.14-rc4-1-k7 in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7

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/usr/sbin/mkinitrd DOES exist on the system.

$ ls -l /usr/sbin/mkinitrd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29308 2005-10-24 03:09 /usr/sbin/mkinitrd

After installing yaird, I was able to install the kernel.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-rc4-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.0.2-1 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-3.3 [c-compiler] 1:3.3.6-10 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.0 [c-compiler] 4.0.2-3 The GNU C compiler
ii make 3.80-11 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.8.7-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.2-10 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Development Librari

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Manoj Srivastava

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Oct 30, 2005, 10:10:12 AM10/30/05
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tags 336418 + fixed-in-experimental
thanks

Hi,

This is not a bug. initrd-tools are not viable post
2.6.12. Unfortunately, the version of kernel-package in Sid does not
correctly modify the Depends: line. The Version in experimental does
this:

Depends: yaird (>= 0.0.11-8) | linux-initramfs-tools, coreutils | fileutils (>= 4.0)
Suggests: lilo (>= 19.1) | grub, fdutils, linux-doc-2.6.14-skas3-v9-pre7 | linux-source-2.6.14-skas3-v9-pre7
Provides: linux-image, linux-image-2.6

manoj
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alive. Thor Heyerdahl
Manoj Srivastava <sriv...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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