[Yaird-devel] Bug#465391: never able to install a kernel again?

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: yaird

Apparently I will never be able to install or upgrade a kernel again
without poisoning that kernel, as its /boot files are left in a
halfway state after this adventure. Please advise.

Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 (2.6.24-4) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:00
yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output (fatal)
mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/yaird_0.0.12-24_i386.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading yaird from 0.0.12-25 to 0.0.12-24.
(Reading database ... 105176 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace yaird 0.0.12-25 (using .../yaird_0.0.12-24_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement yaird ...
Setting up yaird (0.0.12-24) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/yaird/Default.cfg ...
# set linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
# http_proxy= apt-get install $@
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 (2.6.24-4) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: bad device link in /sys/class/input/event2/device (fatal)
mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can I opt out and go back to the old way?
# apt-get --purge remove yaird
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-image-2.6-686* linux-image-2.6.22-3-686*
  linux-image-2.6.24-1-686* linux-image-686* yaird*
Apparently not.