Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 Version: 2.6.16-13bpo1 Severity: important
I have linux-image-2.6-686 installed, so that I automatically get new versions of 2.6.16 (in fact this is a sarge system with backports from backports.org, but that probably does not matter at all). I'm also routinely running 2.6.16, and while upgrading from 2.6.16-1-686 to 2.6.16-2-686 I got a warning message that it would be very dangerous to proceed, since the machine might become unbootable and all that. I'm not sure which template that was; I can't find it in the plethora of debconf questions below. I've found one that talked about "permission to remove /lib/modules/...", but this one I did *not* see. I think there are several things wrong with that. First of all, I have a couple of other kernels installed and configured in menu.list (lilo is not installed); isn't it possible to detect that and make the message a little less alarming? Second, I think a standard install of sarge, and probably etch as well, will only have one kernel image installed. Doesn't this mean that each time a kernel is upgraded (e.g. via security updates), users will get that message? I think we should take great effort to avoid this, and instead provide a clean upgrade procedure. For example by delaying parts of the configuration to the next reboot. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 depends on: ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-1bpo1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool 0.0.12-8bpo1 Yet Another mkInitRD -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.16-2-686: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.16-2-686: false linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.16-2-686: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.16-2-686: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.16-2-686: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.16-2-686: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.16-2-686: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.16-2-686: true * linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.16-2-686: false linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.16-2-686: true linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.16-2-686: false linux-image-2.6.16-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.16-2-686: -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
