[Bug 701578] Re: purging a kernel sometimes fails to remove kernel in armel

[Jarno Suni]

Is it ok to remove the running kernel image?

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Title:
  purging a kernel sometimes fails to remove kernel in armel

Status in initramfs-tools:
  New
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  When purging a kernel, the links in /boot fail to get updated, which
  flash-kernel depends on for updating boot partitions on armel
  platforms.  This may leave the system unable to boot or may continue
  to boot the purged kernel.

  The following is the output from apt-get --purge:

  ubuntu at beaglexm:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.35-24-omap
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    linux-headers-2.6.35-22 linux-headers-2.6.35-22-omap
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    linux-image-2.6.35-24-omap* linux-image-omap* linux-omap*
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 211 not upgraded.
  After this operation, 59.5MB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  (Reading database ... 124191 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing linux-omap ...
  Removing linux-image-omap ...
  Removing linux-image-2.6.35-24-omap ...
  WARN: Proceeding with removing running kernel image.
  Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.35-24-omap /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-omap
  The link /boot/vmlinuz is a damaged link
  Removing symbolic link vmlinuz 
   you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub]
  The link /boot/initrd.img is a damaged link
  Removing symbolic link initrd.img 
   you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub]
  Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.35-24-omap ...
  Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
  run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.35-24-omap /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-omap

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: initramfs-tools 0.98.1ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.35-24.42-omap 2.6.35.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-omap armv7l
  NonfreeKernelModules: nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat binfmt_misc ppdev lp parport dm_crypt smsc95xx usbnet omap_wdt gpio_keys omap2_mcspi joydev twl4030_pwrbutton leds_gpio btrfs zlib_deflate crc32c libcrc32c usbhid hid
  Architecture: armel
  Date: Tue Jan 11 11:52:09 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: initramfs-tools

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