[Bug 54346] manual install: update-initramfs problem

[mlind]

Public bug reported:

I chrooted to my Edgy partition and tried manually install newest
2.6.17-k7 kernel


$ aptitude download linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7 2.6.17-5.16 [21.8MB]
Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s)
matti at sandbox:~$ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7_2.6.17-5.16_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7.
(Reading database ... 79333 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7 (from linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7_2.6.17-5.16_i386.deb) ...
Done.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7 (2.6.17-5.16) ...
Running depmod.
Error retreiving answer for linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.17-5-k7: Unsupported command "update-initramfs:" (full line was "update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-5-k7") received from confmodule. at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7.postinst line 684, <STDIN> line 3.dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7 (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.17-5-k7

** Affects: kernel-package (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed

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manual install: update-initramfs problem
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54346