debconf: setting console triggers update-initramfs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
debconf (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
after launching a fresh quantal instance of the cloud images in EC2, I then ran:
apt-get install pastebinit
and saw:
$ sudo apt-get install pastebinit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
pastebinit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 176 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://
Fetched 16.0 kB in 0s (263 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package pastebinit.
(Reading database ... 46708 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pastebinit (from .../pastebinit_
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up pastebinit (1.3-2ubuntu3) ...
Clearly, pastebinit should not have caused an update of the initramfs.
I asked in #ubuntu-devel and cjwatson made some suggestions on debugging what is causing this. See
http://
Related branches
affects: | ubuntu → debconf (Ubuntu) |
Changed in debconf (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
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