Bug#565954: lvm2: Doesn't install because update-initramfs fails: ln /tmp/.../vgchange File exists

[Jaime Alberto Silva]

Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.54-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

This is what happens when I try to install the package:

** start output **
sgautomatizacion:/home/jaime# apt-get -t unstable install
lvm2
Reading package lists...
Done
Building dependency
tree
Reading state information...
Done
The following NEW packages will be
installed

lvm2

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 372 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/397kB of
archives.
After this operation, 1098kB of additional disk space will be
used.
Selecting previously deselected package
lvm2.
(Reading database ... 351359 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking lvm2 (from .../lvm2_2.02.54-1_i386.deb)
...
Processing triggers for man-db
...
Setting up lvm2 (2.02.54-1)
...
Setting up LVM Volume Groups  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a
while...
.

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger
activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools
...
update-initramfs: Generating
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/mkinitramfs_78XFbD/sbin/vgchange': File
exists
cpio: ./sbin/vgchange: Cannot stat: No such file or
directory
update-initramfs: failed for
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
dpkg: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(2)
** end output
**

Here is the info of the (maybe?) related package:

** start output **
sgautomatizacion:/home/jaime# apt-cache policy initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools:
  Installed: 0.93.4
  Candidate: 0.93.4
  Version table:
 *** 0.93.4 0
        500 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu testing/main Packages
        102 http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu unstable/main Packages
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
        102 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** end output **

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (102, 'unstable'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_CO, LC_CTYPE=es_CO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.39-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper
use
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.39-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper
use
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-7       GNU readline and history
libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init
scrip

lvm2 recommends no packages.

lvm2 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Jaime Alberto Silva Colorado
Gerente
SG Automatización Ltda.
Pereira \ Risaralda \ Colombia
http://www.sgautomatizacion.com
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