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initramfs-tools package

cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases: Cannot stat: No such file or directory - update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic

Bug #529541 reported by Baptiste Mille-Mathias on 2010-02-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #540686: update-initramfs fails in mkinitramfs with "cpio: ./different/files: Cannot stat: No such file or directory". Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

The upgrade stopped and a bunch of warning about dependency issue appeared

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 28 18:01:57 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré
Package: xserver-xorg-video-rendition 1:4.2.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.24-27.65-generic
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package xserver-xorg-video-rendition 1:4.2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-27-generic i686

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Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) wrote on 2010-02-28:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (71.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Ramón Rocha (ramon.rocha) wrote on 2010-03-13:

After clicking Close on the error message, many other xserver-xorg-video-* packages also fail to install/upgrade.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2010-03-22:

Thanks for your report

The relevant error is
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Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « libc-bin »...

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « initramfs-tools »...

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic

cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases: échec de la fonction : stat: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic

dpkg: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

summary:	[upgrade 8.06 -> 10.04 a3] package xserver-xorg-video-rendition - 1:4.2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: problèmes de dépendances - laissé - non configuré + 1:4.2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch- + aliases: échec de la fonction : stat: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce + type
summary:	- [upgrade 8.06 -> 10.04 a3] package xserver-xorg-video-rendition - 1:4.2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch- - aliases: échec de la fonction : stat: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce - type + update-initramfs: failed: cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases: échec de + la fonction : stat: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
summary:	- update-initramfs: failed: cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases: échec de - la fonction : stat: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type + cpio: ./etc/modprobe.d/arch-aliases: Cannot stat: No such file or + directory - update-initramfs: failed for + /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic