Package: acpi-support-base
Version: 0.109-1
Severity: important
If /proc/acpi/event is not present, acpi-support-base
installation fails with the following message:
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Setting up acpi-support-base (0.109-1) ...
acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support-base (--configure):
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Beginning with kernel 2.6.24, the config help text recommends
turning off CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT, as ACPI events, "are now delivered
to user-space via either the input layer, or as netlink events." With
this turned off, /proc/acpi/event is not created, which causes 'acpid'
to fail on launch.
So, either:
- acpi-support-base should tolerate the absence of
/proc/acpi/event, since the scripts are leveraged by more than
just acpid; or,
- acpi-support-base should fail more gracefully if
/proc/acpi/event is not present; or,
- the package description should very clearly state that ACPI
event support must be present.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Schwab
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages acpi-support-base depends on:
ii acpid 1.0.6-5.1 Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities
acpi-support-base recommends no packages.
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