[Yaird-devel] Bug#342905: yaird: barfs when dpkg tries to recover after earlier failure

Frans Pop aragorn at tiscali.nl
Sun Dec 11 16:12:28 UTC 2005


Package: yaird
Version: 0.0.12-1
Severity: important

When configuration of a package fails, dpkg in some cases tries to recover 
by running the postinst scripts again. For yaird this resulted in the 
following error:
yaird error: destination /boot/initrd.img-2.6.14-2-sparc64.new already 
exists (fatal)

This probably also indicates that yaird fails to clean up after itself 
when it fails.

Relevant part of log follows (separate bug filed for the "legacy device" 
error).

Cheers,
FJP

Setting up kernel-package (10.017) ...
Setting up yaird (0.0.12-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/yaird/Default.cfg ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/yaird/Templates.cfg ...

Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (2.6.14-5) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: unrecognised legacy device: /sys/devices/serio1
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (2.6.14-5) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: destination /boot/initrd.img-2.6.14-2-sparc64.new already 
exists (fatal)
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64
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