Technical stuff, mostly to remind myself when I forget in a couple of months' time.

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Updating Debian Squeeze on PogoPlug

There's a nasty little bug in Debian Squeeze which means that if you update the kernel, IPv6 stops working.  The reason this is so annoying for me is that if the networking doesn't work, I can't get into the PogoPlug at all (there is no direct access, not even a serial console).  It's effectively bricked.

The answer is to run flash-kernel after running apt-get upgrade.  This updates the /boot/uImage and /boot/uInitrd files.  The bug is that this isn't run automatically.

The actual answer for me was to restore from a last known good backup from a couple of weeks agoI attempted to look at the flash-kernel script and create these files by hand but it didn't work.

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