hooks/live tries to copy non-existing udevinfo

[Thilo Uttendorfer]

Binary package hint: live-initramfs

This problem happened to me when creating a NFSROOT with fai-setup (package fai-server) with the result that no initrd.img is created. Here is what I discovered:

The packkage udev used to ship udevinfo. It is at least since version 140-1 (jaunty) removed and you should use udevadm, as described in this changlog:

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udev (117-3) hardy; urgency=low

  * Ship symlinks of old udevtrigger, udevsettle, udevinfo and udevmonitor
    tools to udevadm in the udeb. Use of these should be replaced with
    calls to udevadm itself as soon as possible.

 -- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:47:34 +0000
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The scipt /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live in the package live-initramfs contains the following line:
   copy_exec /usr/bin/udevinfo /bin

This should be changed to udevadm. But I'm not sure if there are other scripts that still call udevinfo instead of "udevadm info". If so, these scripts should use udevadm, too.

Thilo

[Simeon Walker (simeon-walker)]

The file scripts/live-helpers also refers to udevinfo at line 12. (version 1.154.8-1)

[Xcess (sxsee)]

I can confirm this behaviour in Hardy and Jaunty, while trying to build a Live System with live-initramfs. The thing is that now I can't run update-initramfs, and since the install failed thru aptitude, I can't uninstall live-initramfs either!!

[mercutio22 (macabro22)]

This is preventing me from upgrading to Jaunty.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7160682#post7160682

[mercutio22 (macabro22)]

louise@Watilla:/usr/bin$ udevadm info
missing option

[Simeon Walker (simeon-walker)]

Looks like this has been fixed in the karmic version.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. It has been replaced by the live-boot package. If you still have this issue with the live-boot package in 12.04 or later, please reopen and reassign to that package.