I also just ran into this: Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.115) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.115) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 /dev/disk/by-uuid: Is a directory mkinitramfs: for root /dev/disk/by-uuid missing disk/by-uuid /sys/block/ entry mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most mkinitramfs: Error please report the bug update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools Press Return to continue.
On Mon 08 Oct 2012, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:39:15AM +0200, Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD) > wrote: > > The workaround given in the error message does not work > > (MODULES=most is already set), > > No it is not, to double check use: > > grep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/ $ grep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/ /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy:MODULES=dep /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf:# MODULES: [ most | netboot | dep | list ] /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf:MODULES=most I never touched these, I would have expected both places to have "most". > your handcrafted fstab looks wrong. My fstab is: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # / was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=5b8c8734-cf1d-4068-bcf6-5011b626a6bf / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=770dffdd-e36b-4cb1-916a-80cf05c231dd /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=c4b06c62-ebb3-438a-b2a9-416163f748b7 none swap sw 0 0 UUID=946872bf-b1e8-43e2-b68c-62a812dc7902 /media/internaldisk ext4 errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 2 UUID=52fdaed3-8359-46e5-954b-28eea00c49c0 /media/ext ext4 noauto,user,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 2 /media/internaldisk/archive /media/archive ard-is-gek rbind 0 0 First part of /etc/mtab is: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 There *is* an entry in /dev/disk/by-uuid for my root device: $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/5b8c8734-cf1d-4068-bcf6-5011b626a6bf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 1 12:01 /dev/disk/by-uuid/5b8c8734-cf1d-4068-bcf6-5011b626a6bf -> ../../sda2 Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140401101926.ga29...@msgid.wurtel.net
