Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Attempting to do an upgrade produces the following error: Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. readlink: invalid option -- m Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: invalid option -- m Try `readlink --help' for more information. Failed to symbolic-link initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 to initrd.img. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: A quick check of the man page for readlink does indeed show that there is no such option. So, the kernel install is left in a partial state, and attempting to remove linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 with aptitude attempts to remove other packages as well, such as linux-image-686. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-18 Yet Another mkInitRD -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-4-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-4-686: true * linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-4-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-4-686: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-4-686: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]