Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
I've failed to dist-upgrade my Etch server with security updates. I have no grub installed. Here is log: # aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 ) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686.postinst line 583. vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 ) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686.postinst line 583. The provided postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] could not be run. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686: linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.18-6-686; however: Package linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-686: linux-image-686 depends on linux-image-2.6-686; however: Package linux-image-2.6-686 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-686 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-686 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1) ... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i -- debconf information: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-6-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: false linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-6-686: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-6-686: true linux-image-2.6.18-6-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]