Hello, I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything, so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any.
I was upgrading my system using dselect and after purging linux-image-2.6.14-2-686, it was probably doing something related to splash image (I didn't have splash image on the machine before this upgrade). It didn't find any splash image and said "skipping...". It updated menu.lst and now is sitting there doing nothing :( There were two initramfs related bugs marked as critical #361270 and #358397. I wonder if one of those were a reason of this behaviour! I will leave it running till the morning so as to wait for responses/suggestions on how to proceed from here. Thanks, /ks Fetched 105MB in 6m20s (275kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done grave bugs of python-cairo (-> 2.4, 2.3) <done> #325379 - python-cairo: undefined symbol: cairo_ps_surface_create critical bugs of initramfs-tools (-> 0.68b) <open> #361270 - update-initrams doesn't call lilo, when grub is around grave bugs of busybox ( -> 1:1.1.3-2) <open> #163501 - busybox: cp -a doesn't copy symlinks grave bugs of initramfs-tools (-> 0.68b) <open> #358397 - initramfs-tools: Fails to install grave bugs of python-gnome2 (-> 2.12.4-3) <open> #354614 - foomatic-gui: segfaults when invoked Summary: python-cairo(1 bug), busybox(1 bug), initramfs-tools(2 bugs), python-gnome2(1 bug) Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] Reading changelogs... Done Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 146544 files and directories currently installed.) Removing aptitude ... Purging configuration files for aptitude ... Removing libgnome-menu0 ... Purging configuration files for libgnome-menu0 ... Removing libreadline4 ... Purging configuration files for libreadline4 ... (Reading database ... 146521 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libtasn1-2-bin ... (Reading database ... 146507 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 ... Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 ... Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1-686 Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
