grub/kernel install issues

[Roel van der Made]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 10:07 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:

> > Just curious, am I the only one with suddenly weird grub & kernel
> > install issues using Fai 3.2.4 and etch+etch security repository ?
> > 
> > I'm guessing some etch/security update somehow messed something up. I
> > just want to exclude this before I dive in further.
> >
> 
> Could you maybe sort of explain _what_ the problem is? Did you change anything?

I explicitly did not go into detail yet because I did not change
anything and the problem appeared after the weekend, the days I do other
things then playing with fai :) And if someone had the same issues
they'd definitively recognize this from my posting.

I had to manually make the /boot/grub directory because without it grub
is complaining about it not existing (then make it?!).

This complete config, with the same kernel ran fine last week, I'm quite
puzzled why this is happening now.

The remaining errors I get are during install time(sorry for the long
post):


Setting up fai-client (3.2.4-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
(20080325.unionfs224.etch1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1) -- doing nothing
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1.postinst line 583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1) -- doing nothing
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ...
No GRUB directory found.
 To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first.
 To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command.
 ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###
 
User postinst hook script [/usr/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
(--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
ERROR: 65280 65280
ERROR: chroot /target aptitude -R -y -o
Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold"
install linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1 memtest86+ grub
lilo- cfengine2 syslog-ng ifenslave fai-client ntp cron debconf-utils
discover file hdparm less nfs-common rdate openssh-client openssh-server
strace sysutils bash sudo vim-tiny time locales console-common pciutils
usbutils openipmi ipmitool iproute sysstat puppet psmisc sqlite return
code 255
install_packages: executing chroot /target apt-get clean
install_packages: executing chroot /target dpkg --configure --pending

<....>

Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1) -- doing nothing
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1.postinst line 583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1) -- doing nothing
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ...
No GRUB directory found.
 To create a template run 'mkdir /boot/grub' first.
 To install grub, install it manually or try the 'grub-install' command.
 ### Warning, grub-install is used to change your MBR. ###

User postinst hook script [/usr/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
(--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1
ERROR: 256 256
ERROR: chroot /target dpkg --configure --pending return code 1
install_packages: executing chroot /target dpkg -C
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to
problems
configuring them the first time.  The configuration should be retried
using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
 linux-image-2.6.24.4-20080325-unionfs224-etch1 Linux kernel binary
image for v
install_packages: executing chroot /target apt-get clean
2 errors during executing of commands
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Exit code task_instsoft: 620
Calling task_configure
Executing    shell: MP-BASE/10-misc
MP-BASE/10-misc      OK.

tnx,

Roel.