Bug#462872: initramfs-tools: install/update on hppa fails during post-installation with exit status 133"
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Dirk Van Hertem wrote:
>
> I experience problems after an apt-get dist-upgrade of my hppa machine
> with the initramfs-tools package, and I did not find anything in the
> BTS concerning this problem. I got the following error:
hmm i've never seen such.
> --8<------------------------------
>
> $ sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> initramfs-tools is already the newest version.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> qt4-doc libgfortran2 binutils-hppa64 qt4-designer gfortran-4.2 libt1-5
> qt4-dev-tools libpoppler1 lesstif2 libxp6 xpdf-common libpisync0
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up initramfs-tools (0.91d) ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-parisc64
> dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 133
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> linux-image-2.6.23-1-parisc64:
> linux-image-2.6.23-1-parisc64 depends on initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) |
> yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) | linux-initramfs-tool; however:
> Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
> Package yaird is not installed.
> Package linux-initramfs-tool is not installed.
> Package initramfs-tools which provides linux-initramfs-tool is not
> configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.23-1-parisc64 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> initramfs-tools
> linux-image-2.6.23-1-parisc64
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> --8<------------------------------
>
>
> Innitially, only the initramfs-tools package returned an error and i
> tried to install the new kernel only later. I had a look in the
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.postinst file, and I excecuted the
> "update-initramfs -u" by hand, and that gave no error...
this makes it more mysterious, this file is really abysmall.
and really does not more then this.
i'll leave that open for now in case someone else can reproduce.
so now initramfs-tools is installed and aboves is not reproducable?
what does the ouput of:
sh -x update-initramfs -u
echo $?
> Let me know if you require further information.
yes seeing the failure, is your disc full?
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