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initramfs-tools package

package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu12 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #982903 reported by Simon Vass on 2012-04-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #984276: installing casper on a non live system causes update-initramfs to fail. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

During the upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS initramfs-tools failed to upgrade

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 16 02:17:01 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu12 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-16 (0 days ago)

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Simon Vass (svass) wrote on 2012-04-16:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (14.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (9.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (29.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (819 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (17.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (10.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2012-04-17:

It looks like you have the casper package installed which is causing an issue:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-38-generic
not empty
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/casper failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-38-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):