Package: initramfs-tools-core
Version: 0.127
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 3.5
I tried a partial upgrade of initramfs-tools, but it failed, complaining that
busybox was too old, see console messages below. The version of busybox
installed at that time was 1:1.22.0-9+deb8u1. I solved this problem by
upgrading busybox to version 1:1.22.0-19+b1.
I investigated this a bit and found that
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/cryptsetup, which belongs to the
cryptsetup package, sets BUSYBOX=Y (both the current stable and testing
versions of cryptsetup do that).
I think this error could also occur on a complete upgrade if busybox is not
installed because neither initramfs-tools nor cryptsetup depends on busybox.
# apt-get install initramfs-tools{,-core}/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '0.127' (Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [all]) for
'initramfs-tools'
Selected version '0.127' (Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [all]) for
'initramfs-tools-core'
[...]
Preparing to unpack .../klibc-utils_2.0.4-9_i386.deb ...
Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/klibc to
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/klibc^i-t by klibc-utils'
Unpacking klibc-utils (2.0.4-9) over (2.0.4-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libklibc_2.0.4-9_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libklibc (2.0.4-9) over (2.0.4-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../initramfs-tools_0.127_all.deb ...
'/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf' ->
'/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf.dpkg-remove'
Unpacking initramfs-tools (0.127) over (0.120+deb8u2) ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/var/lib/initramfs-tools':
Directory not empty
Selecting previously unselected package initramfs-tools-core.
Preparing to unpack .../initramfs-tools-core_0.127_all.deb ...
Unpacking initramfs-tools-core (0.127) ...
Setting up libklibc (2.0.4-9) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Setting up klibc-utils (2.0.4-9) ...
Setting up initramfs-tools-core (0.127) ...
removed '/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf.dpkg-remove'
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.127) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools
...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/initramfs-tools ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.127) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
E: busybox or busybox-static, version 1:1.22.0-17~ or later, is required but
not installed
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (813, 'stable'), (812, 'oldstable'), (600, 'unstable-debug'),
(600, 'unstable'), (550, 'testing-debug'), (550, 'testing'), (510,
'experimental-debug'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core depends on:
ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1
ii klibc-utils 2.0.4-9
ii kmod 18-3
ii module-init-tools 18-3
ii udev 215-17+deb8u6
Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core recommends:
ii busybox 1:1.22.0-19+b1
Versions of packages initramfs-tools-core suggests:
pn bash-completion <none>
-- no debconf information
