linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 wont install

[jonantice]

This is what I get when from apt-get -f install

Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 (2.6.18-5) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Could not find postinst hook script [usr/sbin/update-grub].
Looked in: '/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin'
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

I am running 2.6.18-1-k7 now. What's wrong?

[eraker]

This is just a guess from that error output, but it looks like it can't add the new kernel to grub's menu.lst. Do you have an "update-grub" script in any of the places listed:
'usr/sbin/update-grub', '/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin'

[jonantice]

I do have update-grub:

jonandtice@socrates:~$ whereis update-grub
update-grub: /sbin/update-grub /usr/sbin/update-grub /usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz

[antidrugue]

And where does /etc/kernel-img.conf point ? Which location is used by default for GRUB ?

[jonantice]

problem solved.
I changed the last two lines of /etc/kernel-img.conf from

postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub
postrm_hook   = usr/sbin/update-grub

to

postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
postrm_hook   = /sbin/update-grub

Will this mess anything up in the future?

[antidrugue]

Will this mess anything up in the future?

/sbin/update-grub is only a wrapper that will be removed once Etch gets stable,

grub (0.97-16) unstable; urgency=low

grub-install and update-grub has changed location.

There's a wrapper available in /sbin to keep backward compatibility but
it'll be removed once Etch is release as stable. You _must_ edit your
/etc/kernel-img.conf and change the paths to /usr/sbin/update-grub.
For example:

,----[ /etc/kernel-img.conf ]
| ...
| postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
| postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub
`----

Should be change to:

,----[ /etc/kernel-img.conf ]
| ...
| postinst_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
| postrm_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
`----