Bug#638896: clarification

2011-08-22 Thread Touko Korpela
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:48:24PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > valentijn, hi, > Your messages don't reach valentijn if you only send mail to bugnumber address...people aren't automatically subscribed to bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.o

Bug#638896: clarification

2011-08-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> After making some backups, I tried to upgrade the kernel again. > Guess what? It just works now. arghhh! valentijn, that's *exactly* the "mistake" that i made :) actually in my case, i installed grub (and lvm2) which triggered off the postinst initramfs-tools hook. you cannot "back-recover

Bug#638896: clarification

2011-08-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
valentijn, hi, i just wanted to clarify / double-check something. you say: "Then I just tried to reinstall Debian Squeeze on top of the existing problematic installation." but then you describe a process which merely involves *booting* debian-squeeze on top of the existing problematic installat