I have just now installed aptosid-2010-3 "apate" AMD-64 to a nominal 16 Gigabyte USB drive. I did so as I would do it to any HD. This seemed to work just fine. Initial tests showed the system to work, though of course no non-free firmware was installed. Since I plan to travel with this jump-drive staying with free software is preferred.
The machine I used for the installation is a laptop running several different Linux distributions including Debian Squeeze. We should not have hardware compatibility problems.
The jump-drive is a Cruzer product. It also has worked with other distributions. Prior to installing 2010-3 it was reformatted to ext4.
I then did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade as the manual instructs.
That process noted that grub would be upgraded and a new kernel would be installed, among other upgrades.
As the excerpts below show, there were problems with both the grub and the kernel upgrades.
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Setting up aptosid-scripts (0.4.11) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.37-0.slh.7-aptosid-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.37-0.slh.7-aptosid-amd64
linux-image-2.6-aptosid-amd64
grub-pc
fll-iso2usb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
If we go back up in the bash output to where grub is being upgraded we see this:
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Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100804-14) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ...
Removing update-grub hooks from /etc/kernel-img.conf in favour of
/etc/kernel/ hooks.
grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Still further up there is evidence that the upgrade evidently is having difficulty with both the grub and kernel upgrades:
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Running /usr/sbin/update-grub.
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
User postinst hook script [/usr/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.37-0.slh.7-aptosid-amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Setting up linux-headers-2.6-aptosid-amd64 (2.6.37-7) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-aptosid-amd64:
linux-image-2.6-aptosid-amd64 depends on linux-image-2.6.37-0.slh.7-aptosid-amd64 (= 2.6.37-7); however:
Package linux-image-2.6.37-0.slh.7-aptosid-amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-aptosid-amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
If I attempt to do sux, then update-grub I get the following, which is consistent with the upgrade error messages.
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root@aptoUSB:/home/beejay# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: No open parenthesis found.
These problems are new to me. For example, what does it mean to say "no open parentheses found." Can anyone tell me what I am seeing here? |
