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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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package yaird
force-merge 461997 465391
thanks

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:14:22PM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
>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)

This looks like the previously reported bug#461997.

To help avoid cluttering our bug tracking system with duplicate 
reports for same bugs, please check before creating a new report if the 
bug found has already been reported.

To help solve this bug, please provide the output of the following two 
commands:

     lsmod

     yaird --test


A possible workaround, if you are not using encrypted filesystems below 
your root mount, is to comment out the "INPUT" line in 
/etc/yaird/Default.cfg

Of course another "workaround" is to completely abandon the package 
containing the bug, as you mention in your later post to this bugreport.

If you don't care about the benefits offered by yaird, then you are 
probably better off using the mainstream initramfs-tools anyway.

But even if you favor initramfs-tools over yaird, then please consider 
reinstalling yaird and provide the above material, to help solve this 
bug.

If both yaird and initramfs-tools is installed then yaird will not be 
used by default when installing official Debian kernels. In other words, 
if you did not manually edit /etc/kernel-img.conf, then reinstalling 
yaird now, after you've swithced to initramfs-tools, should not cause 
your system to break. So please consider helping out.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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