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 ---- /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 -- no debconf information
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