Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92o Severity: normal
i have two debian installations on my harddisk(s). a. the main installation on /dev/md0 b. a second installation on /dev/sda2 1. i boot into /dev/md0 2. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt && chroot /mnt (from now on *inside* chroot) 3. mount /proc 4. apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade -> a new kernel is installed but mkinitramfs-kpkg fails silently: r...@image / # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26-13lenny2) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-15) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-amd64: linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64; however: Package linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 linux-image-2.6-amd64 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 5. i now mount /sys: r...@image / # mount /sys 6. now it mount /sys: r...@image / # mount /sys r...@image / # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 (2.6.26-13lenny2) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. W: mdadm: unchecked configuration file: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf W: mdadm: please read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz . Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-15) ... Running depmod. Running mkinitramfs-kpkg. W: mdadm: unchecked configuration file: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf W: mdadm: please read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz . Setting up linux-image-2.6-amd64 (2.6.26+17+lenny1) ... -- afairc, using "mkinitramfs" i get the output that /sys is not mounted so i suggest that this error is also displayed by mkinitramfs-kpkg. thank you for taking care of this issue. cheers, raoul -- Package-specific info: -- /proc/cmdline root=/dev/md0 ro -- /proc/filesystems ext3 -- lsmod Module Size Used by sg 36448 0 e100 37648 0 mii 9856 1 e100 e1000e 99748 0 ipv6 288328 22 psmouse 42268 0 i2c_i801 13596 0 serio_raw 9860 0 snd_pcm 81672 0 i2c_core 27936 1 i2c_i801 snd_timer 25744 1 snd_pcm snd 63688 2 snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 12064 1 snd snd_page_alloc 13072 1 snd_pcm pcspkr 7040 0 ehci_hcd 36108 0 iTCO_wdt 15696 0 container 8320 0 button 11680 0 shpchp 34080 0 uhci_hcd 25760 0 pci_hotplug 32056 1 shpchp evdev 14208 0 dm_mirror 20608 0 dm_log 13956 1 dm_mirror dm_snapshot 19400 0 dm_mod 58864 3 dm_mirror,dm_log,dm_snapshot raid456 125984 3 async_xor 8448 1 raid456 async_memcpy 6912 1 raid456 async_tx 11764 3 raid456,async_xor,async_memcpy xor 9744 2 raid456,async_xor thermal 22688 0 processor 42304 1 thermal fan 9352 0 thermal_sys 17728 3 thermal,processor,fan ahci 33036 13 ext3 125072 3 jbd 51240 1 ext3 mbcache 12804 1 ext3 raid1 24192 1 md_mod 80164 4 raid456,raid1 sd_mod 29376 16 sata_sil 13192 0 ata_piix 22660 0 libata 165472 3 ahci,sata_sil,ata_piix scsi_mod 160760 3 sg,sd_mod,libata dock 14112 1 libata r8169 31492 0 -- /etc/kernel-img.conf # Kernel Image management overrides # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details do_symlinks = No do_initrd = Yes -- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf MODULES=dep BUSYBOX=y BOOT=local DEVICE=eth0 NFSROOT=auto -- /sys/block md0 md1 md10 md11 md12 md13 md14 md15 md16 md17 md18 md19 md2 md20 md21 md22 md23 md24 md25 md26 md27 md28 md29 md3 md30 md31 md4 md5 md6 md7 md8 md9 ram0 ram1 ram10 ram11 ram12 ram13 ram14 ram15 ram16 ram2 ram3 ram4 ram5 ram6 ram7 ram8 ram9 sda sdb sdc -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii cpio 2.9-13 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii findutils 4.4.0-2 utilities for finding files--find, ii klibc-utils 1.5.12-2 small utilities built with klibc f ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.125-7 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends: ii busybox 1:1.10.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed initramfs-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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