[Yaird-devel] Bug#496500: yaird: fails to create initrd when running 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel

[James Andrewartha]

Package: yaird
Version: 0.0.12-18
Severity: important

This is bug 431534, exposed again because stable has an old version of
yaird but a recent kernel.

martello:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch2) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: unrecognised line in /proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq= (fatal)
mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages yaird depends on:
ii  cpio                   2.6-18.1+etch1    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  dash                   0.5.3-7           The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libhtml-template-perl  2.8-1             HTML::Template : A module for usin
ii  libparse-recdescent-pe 1.94.free-3       Generates recursive-descent parser
ii  perl                   5.8.8-7etch3      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

yaird recommends no packages.

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