Bug#641047: initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 issue with lvm and libncurses

[Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
Version: 2.6.32-35squeeze1

After an apt-get upgrade today, I wasn't able to boot anymore, lvm
complains that can't find libncurses.so.5, and it's right, the only
libncurses.so.5 file in initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 is in
/32bit/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.

Note that:

$ file libncurses.so.5
libncurses.so.5: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1
(SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

I solved by patching initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 with a symlink to the
proper path: /lib. That's the second time it happens after an upgrade.
I don't have records of the first one.

Here's the culprit (from /var/log/apt/history.log):

Start-Date: 2011-09-09  15:43:30
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64:amd64 (2.6.32-35,
2.6.32-35squeeze1), firmware-linux-free:amd64 (2.6.32-35,
2.6.32-35squeeze1), linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common:amd64 (2.6.32-35,
2.6.32-35squeeze1), linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64:amd64 (2.6.32-35,
2.6.32-35squeeze1), linux-base:amd64 (2.6.32-35, 2.6.32-35squeeze1),
linux-libc-dev:amd64 (2.6.32-35, 2.6.32-35squeeze1)
End-Date: 2011-09-09  15:44:21

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Andrea Cardaci

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