Re: apt error, fresh install Debian 12/Dell desktop

[Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 1:19 PM Bob Crochelt <rfc56@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi:
> Fresh install Debian 12.  All seems well.  However, when I install a new package, in this case fvwm, the package installs fine, but there is an error at the end...
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-amd64:
> linux-image-amd64 depends on linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 (= 6.1.52-1); however:
>   Package linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing package linux-image-amd64 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u3) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-12-amd64
> raspi-firmware: missing /boot/firmware, did you forget to mount it?
> run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//z50-raspi-firmware exited with return code 1
> dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
> installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64
> linux-image-amd64
> initramfs-tools
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> So far all the packages I have installed have worked fine...
>
> Should I ignore this or do something?

This is a bit crazy. It can't be a "fresh install" if you have the
amd64 kernel trying to configure the closed firmware for a raspberry
pi. Why is "raspi-firmware" installed? What's your actual computer and
how did you install debian?