Package: hotplug Version: 0.0.20040329-16 Severity: normal See subject. If /sys is not mounted (missing support or just by accident), firmware.agent simply fails. No error message, no warning in syslog, simply silent failure. Looking at the script I realize that it just assumes that you have kernel 2.4 if sysfs is not mounted somewhere, but this is pretty naive assumption. procfs does not contain the firmware loader interface on kernel 2.6, so it cannot work. And believe me, it is not fun to search for that bug when every Google hit says nothing but "drop your blobs to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and you always will be fine".
To "solve" this problem, I suggest an additional check for kernel 2.4 after this lines (maybe by looking at the required interface in procfs): # use /proc for 2.4 kernels if [ "$SYSFS" = "" ]; then and then writting some meaningful warnings to syslog when it is not the case. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hotplug depends on: ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy ii grep 2.5.1.ds1-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities -- debconf information: * hotplug/ignore_pci_class_display: true * hotplug/net_agent_policy: hotplug * hotplug/static_module_list: hid * hotplug/usbd_enable: true * hotplug/usb_keyboard: hotplug/x11_usbmice_hack: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
