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update-manager package

10.04 -> 12.04 upgrade should remove live-initramfs

Bug #1034794 reported by Reinhard Tartler
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Using the do-release-upgrade tool, I noticed the following upgrade failure:

Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-686-pae
cp: cannot stat `/lib/libacl*': No such file or directory
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-686-pae with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools

The cause is a hook that the package live-initramfs (it was in lucid, but it is no longer included in precise) has installed. Removing the package did allow the upgrade to succeed.

I think this is something that the upgrade tool should do by itself.

Stéphane Graber (stgraber)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → nobody
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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

Do we really want "removing random universe packages that are slightly broken and never installed by default" logic in the upgrader?

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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

(And, given that this is a fork of casper, one would assume it should never be installed on a system at all, in that it should be removed by one's live installer, just like casper is.. If not, that's a bug in the installer that was using it which, again, isn't an Ubuntu installer)

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 1034794] Re: 10.04 -> 12.04 upgrade should remove live-initramfs

On Do, Aug 09, 2012 at 20:11:39 (CEST), Adam Conrad wrote:

> Do we really want "removing random universe packages that are slightly
> broken and never installed by default" logic in the upgrader?

I thought that this was one of the points of a dedicated upgrade tool
over just editing /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get. Only this week, I
let a collegue upgraded such a machine this week, and the upgrade
process broke because of this, resulting in a very poor experience for
ubuntu upgrades.

Is this issue particulary difficult to implement? I'd imagine it would
be just addind another item in some list.

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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