ppc/ubiquity install boots wrong kernel

[Martin Pitt]

20061016 ppc/desktop ubiquity install on an iBook G4 (32-bit PowerPC): The installed system does not boot, just gets stuck in usplash early. Fiddling with Ctrl+Alt+Fn reveals that '/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-powerpc/modules.dep' cannot be found, and indeed the initramfs only has modules for 2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp/.

/boot/initrd.img points to the powerpc64-smp initramfs, there isn't one for -powerpc.

dpkg -l linux-image*: (in installed system, mounted from live)
un linux-image <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-2.6.17-10-powerpc 2.6.17-10.33 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.17 on 32-
ii linux-image-2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp 2.6.17-10.33 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.17 on 64-
ii linux-image-powerpc 2.6.17.10 Linux kernel image on PowerPC.
pn linux-image-powerpc64-smp <none> (no description available)

so it seems it only purges the metapackage, but not the actual kernel.

/proc/cpuinfo: (in live system)
processor : 0
cpu : 7455, altivec supported
clock : 606.000000MHz
revision : 0.3 (pvr 8001 0303)
bogomips : 36.73
timebase : 18432000
platform : PowerMac
machine : PowerBook6,3
motherboard : PowerBook6,3 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (iBook G4)
pmac flags : 0000001b
L2 cache : 256K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld

uname -r: (in live system)
2.6.17-10-powerpc

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

installer syslog

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

dpkg -l linux-*:
un linux-doc-2.6.17 <none> (no description available)
un linux-headers <none> (no description available)
un linux-headers-2.6 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-headers-2.6.17-10 2.6.17-10.33 Header files related to Linux kernel version
ii linux-headers-2.6.17-10-powerpc 2.6.17-10.33 Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.17 on 3
ii linux-headers-2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp 2.6.17-10.33 Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.17 on 6
ii linux-headers-powerpc 2.6.17.10 Linux kernel headers on PowerPC
ii linux-headers-powerpc64-smp 2.6.17.10 Linux kernel headers on PowerPC64 SMP
un linux-image <none> (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-image-2.6.17-10-powerpc 2.6.17-10.33 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.17 on 32-
ii linux-image-2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp 2.6.17-10.33 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.17 on 64-
ii linux-image-powerpc 2.6.17.10 Linux kernel image on PowerPC.
pn linux-image-powerpc64-smp <none> (no description available)
un linux-kernel-log-daemon <none> (no description available)
ii linux-powerpc 2.6.17.10 Complete Linux kernel on PowerPC.
pn linux-powerpc64-smp <none> (no description available)
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-powerpc 2.6.17.5-10 Non-free Linux 2.6.17 modules on PowerPC
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp 2.6.17.5-10 Non-free Linux 2.6.17 modules on PowerPC 64-
ii linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.17.5-10 Non-free Linux 2.6.17 modules helper script
ii linux-restricted-modules-powerpc 2.6.17.10 Restricted Linux modules on PowerPC.
ii linux-restricted-modules-powerpc64-smp 2.6.17.10 Restricted Linux modules on PowerPC 64-bit S
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.11-5ubuntu1 base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems
un linux-source-2.6.17 <none> (no description available)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

With http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubiquity-testing.diff applied, /var/lib/ubiquity/remove-kernels contains 'linux-image-2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp' and 'linux-image-powerpc64-smp'. However, the installed system still has all (image/headers/restricted-modules) the powerpc64-smp kernels installed, and there's only an initramfs for the 64smp kernel.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Adding milestone, since this completely breaks all 32 bit powerpc installs.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

With any luck:

ubiquity (1.2.3) edgy; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix incorrect loop variable reuse in do_remove, and attempt multiple
    broken package resolution passes while removing packages (closes: Malone
    #66406).
  * Detect existing HFS bootstrap partitions during automatic partitioning
    and take account of them while validating mountpoints (closes: Malone
    #66384).
  * Fix crash on keyboard page if you select a layout with no variants.
  * Remove kernels before running update-initramfs so that we update the
    correct initramfs on powerpc. Make sure to fix up kernel/initrd symlinks
    after running update-initramfs, so that we have something to which to
    point the initrd symlink.

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * Run fontconfig-voodoo to tweak fontconfig configuration for the selected
    language (closes: Malone #49334).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:49:28 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (1.2.4) edgy; urgency=low

  * Use update-initramfs -c -k "$(uname -r)" rather than update-initramfs
    -u, as the latter gets very confused if we need to remove kernels, as on
    powerpc (really closes: Malone #66406).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: localechooser 1.20ubuntu8.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:14:41 +0100