Package: linux-base
Version: 3.5
Severity: minor
I did the following:
- basic squeeze install, choose no bootloader,
- manually do an extlinux install in /boot (extlinux package is NOT installed)
- set link_in_boot=yes in kernel-img.conf
Those are about the only things I did. Then I tried to upgrade from
squeeze to wheezy and got
Not a directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1177.
...without further helpful output. That line is part of a generic
function, so I straced dpkg --configure -a and found
4875 open(/boot/extlinux/options.cfg, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a
directory)
I have not investigated further but I guess this is because linux-base
is finding /boot/ldlinux.sys and assuming it was configured in the way
update-extlinux does it.
FWIW even when I do install extlinux via apt, I typically have a
static /boot/syslinux.cfg and I disable update-extlinux so it doesn't
run.
If you aren't interested in supporting odd extlinux setups, that's OK
with me, but I would appreciate a less obscure error message.
Here is what my system looks like:
root@debian:~# cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = yes
root@debian:~# find /boot -ls
3440654 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 15 17:06 /boot
344067 108 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106172 Sep 24 00:08
/boot/config-2.6.32-5-amd64
344068 1632 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1666397 Sep 24 00:08
/boot/System.map-2.6.32-5-amd64
3440690 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 15 15:45
/boot/vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
3440710 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 15 15:45
/boot/initrd.img - initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
344072 60 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root55176 Jan 15 15:45
/boot/extlinux
344066 2372 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2423968 Sep 23 23:59
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
344080 8700 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8891560 Jan 15 17:06
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
344073 60 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root56164 Jan 15 15:46
/boot/menu.c32
344074 32 -r--r--r-- 1 root root32256 Jan 15 15:46
/boot/ldlinux.sys
3440764 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457 Jan 15 15:54
/boot/syslinux.cfg
344070 2060 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2101443 Dec 20 01:19
/boot/System.map-3.2.0-4-amd64
3440754 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 445 Jan 15 15:54
/boot/syslinux.cfg~
344078 132 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128903 Dec 20 01:19
/boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64
344079 2768 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2829472 Dec 20 01:16
/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64
root@debian:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
808388608 sda
root@debian:~# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=508624k,nr_inodes=127156,mode=755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/root / ext2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/root /run ext2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/root /run/lock ext2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
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