On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.93.4 > Severity: important > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Mart van de Wege <mvdw...@mail.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: initramfs-tools: Purging a kernel-image does not clean up > /var/lib/initramfs-tools > Message-ID: <20090903081412.4143.23377.report...@gareth.avalon.lan> > X-Mailer: reportbug 4.6 > Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:14:12 +0200 > > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.93.4 > Severity: important > > When purging a kernel image, the corresponding file in > /var/lib/initramfs-tools is not > deleted. On the next run of apt-get/dpkg, this will make update-initramfs > fail because > the modules for a listed kernel do of course not exist anymore. > > It might be a good idea to at least also mention the state dir in the > manpage. I had to > resort to actually looking at the shell script to find out why > update-initramfs kept > trying to create an initrd for a non-existent kernel, after finding no > documentation in > the manpage. > > Marking important because although there is a workaround, it is > non-documented. > > Mart van de Wege
what are you trying to do? please post the script calling update-initramfs, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
