Public bug reported:

Today's hardy alternate CD install for PS3 fails to install due to a
failure to configure the "initscripts" package.

The failure root cause is that it tries to mount spufs on /spu but that 
filesystem is not part of whatever
comes with the kernel on that installer CD.

I believe the problem is two fold here:

 - First, I suspect it might be a good idea to have the spufs module present 
and loaded on the
installer kernel

 - Second, even without that, the initscripts package should not fail 
configuration if it can't mount spufs,
there is nothing fatal about that especially for the distro install.

Finally, I found it hard to "fix it up" from a console because after I hacked 
the postinst script to not attempt
the mount, I could configure the package manually fine. But the installer GUI 
still fails, because it retries
I suppose dpkg --configure <package> which stupidly -fails- if the package is 
already configured ! (it's a
bit lame). Maybe the installer should also be made a bit more smart in that 
area.

** Affects: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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initscripts fails configure on ps3 install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221626
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