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initramfs-tools package

update-initramfs fails due iscan

Bug #603053 reported by marcobra (Marco Braida)
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Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

 apt-cache policy initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools:
  Installato: 0.97.2ubuntu1
  Candidato: 0.97.2ubuntu1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 0.97.2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

 apt-cache policy iscan
iscan:
  Installato: 2.24.0-4.ltdl7
  Candidato: 2.24.0-4.ltdl7
  Tabella versione:
 *** 2.24.0-4.ltdl7 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Configurazione di initramfs-tools (0.97.2ubuntu1)...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Elaborazione dei trigger per initramfs-tools...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-6-generic
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/iscan failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-6-generic
dpkg: errore nell'elaborare initramfs-tools (--configure):

i get this error on regular update/dist-upgrade of Maverick

Thank you

marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)
tags: added: maverick
affects: ubuntu → initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Yes, but there's nothing I can do about it - it's a bug in the iscan package, which is not part of Ubuntu and therefore I can't fix it.

The upstream developers appear to be aware of this, and should be releasing a new version soon if they haven't already. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586554 for full details.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
Revision history for this message
GuyR (guy-rouger) wrote :

execute

root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/guy/Linux/kernel# chmod a-x /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/iscan

then it is ok
root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/guy/Linux/kernel# update-initramfs -u
root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/guy/Linux/kernel# dpkg --configure linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
Paramétrage de linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic-pae (2.6.35-19.26) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
cryptsetup: WARNING: found more than one resume device candidate:
                     /dev/sda5
                     UUID="05693020-0f23-47da-bf3c-b051232a2790"
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.35-19-generic-pae /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common 2.6.35-19-generic-pae /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 2.6.35-19-generic-pae /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 2.6.35-19-generic-pae /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.35-19-generic-pae /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic-pae
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-19-generic-pae
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
done

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Zaris (zaris) wrote :

I had this same problem and GuyR's advice fixed it.

Hopefully this is resolved somehow with the final release. Average user does not care whose fault it is when the system will not boot after upgrade.

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

It's pretty horrible, but I suppose I can ignore errors from just that initramfs hook. This will have to be reverted at some point, but hopefully by then most of the affected systems will have been upgraded to a decent working version of iscan.

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.98.1ubuntu5

---------------
initramfs-tools (0.98.1ubuntu5) maverick; urgency=low

  * Ignore errors from iscan hook, due to a widely-deployed third-party
    package causing upgrade problems (LP: #603053).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:42:30 +0100

Changed in initramfs-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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