Package: microcode.ctl
Version: 1.17-1
Severity: important
I tried to install this package but the postinst fails:
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 469 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up microcode.ctl (1.17-1) ...
udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/
dpkg: error processing microcode.ctl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
microcode.ctl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I added "set -x" to the top of /var/lib/dpkg/info/microcode.ctl.postinst
and the output is as follows:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 469 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up microcode.ctl (1.17-1) ...
+ case "$1" in
+ '[' -b /dev/cpu/microcode ']'
+ '[' '!' -e /dev/cpu/microcode ']'
+ cd /dev
+ /sbin/MAKEDEV microcode
udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/
+ '[' -x /usr/share/misc/microcode.dat ']'
+ grep -sq GenuineIntel /proc/cpuinfo
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
++ '[' '' ']'
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/microcode.ctl.postinst
configure ''
+ case "$1" in
+ '[' -b /dev/cpu/microcode ']'
+ '[' '!' -e /dev/cpu/microcode ']'
+ cd /dev
+ /sbin/MAKEDEV microcode
+ '[' -x /usr/share/misc/microcode.dat ']'
+ grep -sq GenuineIntel /proc/cpuinfo
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' 1 ']'
++ '[' -z '' ']'
++ exec
++ '[' '' ']'
++ exec
++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1
++ export DEBCONF_REDIR
+ db_get microcode.ctl/check-new
+ _db_cmd 'GET microcode.ctl/check-new'
+ IFS=' '
+ printf '%s\n' 'GET microcode.ctl/check-new'
+ IFS='
'
+ read -r _db_internal_line
+ RET='20 Unsupported command "udev" (full line was "udev active, devices
will be created in /dev/.static/dev/") received from confmodule.'
+ case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in
+ return 20
dpkg: error processing microcode.ctl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
microcode.ctl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-jim
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.4
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages microcode.ctl depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii makedev 2.3.1-83 creates device files in /dev
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii modutils 2.4.27.0-6 Linux module utilities
ii po-debconf 1.0.8 manage translated Debconf template
ii udev 0.105-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
microcode.ctl recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* microcode.ctl/check-new: true
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