Your message dated Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:49:43 +0000
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and subject line Bug#968604: fixed in acpi-override 0.1+nmu2
has caused the Debian Bug report #968604,
regarding acpi-override-initramfs makes update-initramfs fail when
/var/lib/acpi-override/ is empty
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Package: acpi-override-initramfs
Version: 0.1+nmu1
Ubuntu 20.04, but the package is the unmodified version from Debian.
user@system:~$ sudo apt install acpi-override-initramfs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acpi-override-initramfs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2.640 B of archives.
After this operation, 17,4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package acpi-override-initramfs.
(Reading database ... 206064 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../acpi-override-initramfs_0.1+nmu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking acpi-override-initramfs (0.1+nmu1) ...
Setting up acpi-override-initramfs (0.1+nmu1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.2) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic
cp: cannot stat '/var/lib/acpi-override/*': No such file or directory
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/acpi-override failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic with 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:
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I assume the problematic statement is in line 18 in
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/acpi-override
cp -a /var/lib/acpi-override/* "$ACPI/kernel/firmware/acpi/" || exit 1
If there is no file in /var/lib/acpi-override/ (which is to be expected at
initial installation of that package) the cp command gives return code 1 and
dpkg ends with an error.
In my opinion the cp command should only be executed when files exist, so it
probably has to be put into some kind of "if" clause (or needs an
"ignore-if-empty" option).
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Source: acpi-override
Source-Version: 0.1+nmu2
Done: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
acpi-override, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Andreas Tille <[email protected]> (supplier of updated acpi-override package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:00:36 +0100
Source: acpi-override
Architecture: source
Version: 0.1+nmu2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Closes: 968604 1112614
Changes:
acpi-override (0.1+nmu2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Non-maintainer upload (Closes: #1112614)
.
[ YIN Renlong ]
* Fix update-initramfs crash on empty override directory
The acpi-override hook script unconditionally executes a copy command
using a wildcard (*). When the /var/lib/acpi-override/ directory is
empty (default state), this command fails, causing update-initramfs
to exit with an error code.
.
The change adds a conditional check to ensure the directory exists
and is populated before attempting the copy operation.
Closes: #968604 (LP: 1892035)
.
[ Andreas Tille ]
* debhelper-compat (= 13)
* Maintain in Debian team on Salsa
* Standards-Version: 4.7.3
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