[Bug 1034794] Re: 10.04 -> 12.04 upgrade should remove live-initramfs

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Do, Aug 09, 2012 at 20:11:39 (CEST), Adam Conrad wrote:

> Do we really want "removing random universe packages that are slightly
> broken and never installed by default" logic in the upgrader?

I thought that this was one of the points of a dedicated upgrade tool
over just editing /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get. Only this week, I
let a collegue upgraded such a machine this week, and the upgrade
process broke because of this, resulting in a very poor experience for
ubuntu upgrades.

Is this issue particulary difficult to implement? I'd imagine it would
be just addind another item in some list.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

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Title:
  10.04 -> 12.04 upgrade should remove live-initramfs

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Using the do-release-upgrade tool, I noticed the following upgrade
  failure:

  
  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99) ...
  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
  Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-686-pae
  cp: cannot stat `/lib/libacl*': No such file or directory
  E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return 1.
  update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-686-pae with 1.
  dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  initramfs-tools

  
  The cause is a hook that the package live-initramfs (it was in lucid, but it is no longer included in precise) has installed. Removing the package did allow the upgrade to succeed.

  I think this is something that the upgrade tool should do by itself.

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