Should I file a bug

[ntzim]

Hi to everybody,
A few days ago during an automatic update of linux-image, initrd fail to be build and I end up with a unbootable system.
I suspected a hardware problem (badblocks in my harddisk) and I spent a couple days before realizing what the real problem was.

The solution was easy (mv initrd.img-xxxx.bak initrd.img-xxxx), but I think that this should be automatically done by dpkg, when failing to build system critical files. Do you agree that is a missing feature? Shall I report a bug?

[toad]

Re: Should I file a bug

Something similar happened to me on Debian Etch with yaird. A few heart stopping moments later I managed to get the system running again, but only because I had a knoppix CD to hand.

Your idea is a good one - the "average" user would have simply reinstalled and blamed the OS!