On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 20:22 +0200, Marcus Osdoba wrote: [...] > I do not use dracut, just stable with kernel from backports. > So I like to state, that there is a known workaround: Make sure to > regenerate the initramfs before rebooting and do not uninstall the > stable kernel ;-) [...] Well, of course that works, but it's always supposed to happen automatically. I've now tested upgrading from squeeze to squeeze-backports kernel package in a VM, with the results: # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-pae Fails, complaining that initramfs-tools will be broken. # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-pae initramfs-tools/squeeze-backport Succeeds and builds an initramfs automatically as expected. # aptitude install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-pae Offers to install dracut and remove initramfs-tools! # aptitude install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-pae initramfs-tools/squeeze-backport Succeeds and builds an initramfs automatically as expected. So my best theory is that aptitude is leading some people astray. Do you use aptitude? Did you get dracut installed, even though you don't intentionally use it? Ben.
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