Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26-11
Severity: important

An upgrade of machine with a fairly basic install fails mysteriously:

one:/home/wichert# dpkg --configure linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 (2.6.26-11) ...
Running depmod.
Running mkinitramfs-kpkg.
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686.postinst line 569.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686.postinst line 569.
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686


running update-grub by hand seems to work fine, so I have no idea what is
happning here.

Wichert.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92j tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-47 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn linux-doc-2.6.26 <none> (no description available)

-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-1-686:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-1-686:



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reassign 510223 grub
thanks

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:14:27AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
> User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1

update-grub is supplied by grub, this looks like #499176.

Bastian

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