sudo update-grub fails - ls: /boot/*-kdump: No such file or directory. Called with recent linux-image-2.6.17-5-686 upgrade

Bug #53860 reported by Sarah Kowalik
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #53727: update-grub fails if no *-kdump files. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

The following packages will be upgraded:
  konq-plugins linux-headers-2.6.17-5 linux-headers-2.6.17-5-686 linux-image-2.6.17-5-686
  linux-kernel-headers
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 65.5kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main konq-plugins 4:3.5.3-0ubuntu4 [1081kB]
Get: 2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main linux-headers-2.6.17-5 2.6.17-5.15 [7386kB]
Get: 3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main linux-headers-2.6.17-5-686 2.6.17-5.15 [890kB]
Get: 4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main linux-image-2.6.17-5-686 2.6.17-5.15 [21.9MB]
Get: 5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main linux-kernel-headers 2.6.17-5.15 [1690kB]
Fetched 33.0MB in 2m3s (267kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 121454 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace konq-plugins 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu4 (using .../konq-plugins_4%3a3.5.3-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement konq-plugins ...
Preparing to replace linux-headers-2.6.17-5 2.6.17-5.14 (using .../linux-headers-2.6.17-5_2.6.17-5.15_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-headers-2.6.17-5 ...
Preparing to replace linux-headers-2.6.17-5-686 2.6.17-5.14 (using .../linux-headers-2.6.17-5-686_2.6.17-5.15_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-headers-2.6.17-5-686 ...
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.17-5-686 2.6.17-5.14 (using .../linux-image-2.6.17-5-686_2.6.17-5.15_i386.deb) ...
The directory /lib/modules/2.6.17-5-686 still exists. Continuing as directed.
Done.
Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.17-5-686 ...
Running postrm hook /sbin/update-grub .
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: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5-686
ls: /boot/*-kdump: No such file or directory
User hook script /sbin/update-grub failed at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.17-5-686.postrm line 288.
Preparing to replace linux-kernel-headers 2.6.17-5.14 (using .../linux-kernel-headers_2.6.17-5.15_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-kernel-headers ...
Setting up konq-plugins (3.5.3-0ubuntu4) ...

Setting up linux-headers-2.6.17-5 (2.6.17-5.15) ...

Setting up linux-headers-2.6.17-5-686 (2.6.17-5.15) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.17-5-686 (2.6.17-5.15) ...
Running depmod.
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.17-5.14 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.17-5.14 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook /sbin/update-grub.
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: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5-686
ls: /boot/*-kdump: No such file or directory
User hook script /sbin/update-grub failed at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.17-5-686.postinst line 1201.

Setting up linux-kernel-headers (2.6.17-5.15) ...

sarah@sarah:/boot$ ls -la
total 11780
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-07-24 16:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2006-07-19 18:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280269 2006-07-06 02:56 abi-2.6.17-4-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 279822 2006-07-22 13:26 abi-2.6.17-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73216 2006-07-05 23:33 config-2.6.17-4-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73124 2006-07-22 09:46 config-2.6.17-5-686
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-07-19 19:00 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6635617 2006-07-24 16:33 initrd.img-2.6.17-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94760 2005-10-25 20:32 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717995 2006-07-06 02:56 System.map-2.6.17-4-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 717389 2006-07-22 13:26 System.map-2.6.17-5-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1548954 2006-07-06 02:56 vmlinuz-2.6.17-4-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1553121 2006-07-22 13:26 vmlinuz-2.6.17-5-686

Revision history for this message
Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

fixed in ubuntu packages

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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