On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Sunil Beta Baskar <beta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I am trying to apply a kernel upgrade to a Ubuntu 12.04 server box. >> The upgrade process hangs on the following line: >> >> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-27-generic >> >> If I kill the upgrade process and run update-initramfs manually, I see >> the problem occurring at the following step: >> >> Adding module >> /lib/modules/3.2.0-26-generic/kernel/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.ko >> >> Has anyone run into this problem before? Any ideas on what I can do to >> solve this problem? I have a bug filed against this with Ubuntu, but I >> thought I'd ask the group anyway. > > I haven't run into this specific problem, but other issues with mkinitramfs. > > I have usually checked this in tandem by running linux without the ramdisk. > You could do the same by getting the package source, building linux, > reconfiguring and > trying again. > > update-initramfs is the script that does this. Is this script locking up? > Is net/dsa/mv88e6060.ko a module that you need? >
Yes, update-initramfs is the script that is locking up. The mv88e6060.ko is not a module I need, but it seems to be a module that Ubuntu adds to the ramdisk. I am going to try blacklisting this module and see how things go. > Could you run update-initramfs and post part of its output. You can run > it verbose. > Sure. I'll post the output as soon as I can. Thanks, Kaustubh > Beta > > _______________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List -- Kaustubh Gadkari _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
