Your message dated Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:15:15 -0400 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: mkvmlinuz: Doesn't display errors it got as input in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz has caused the Debian Bug report #560820, regarding mkvmlinuz: Doesn't display errors it got as input in /etc/kernel/postinst.d to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: mkvmlinuz Version: 35 Severity: normal This seems to be similar to the already fixed bugs #518231 and #522666 reported against the linux-2.6 source package. The recent two kernel updates (linux-image-2.6.30-2-powerpc and linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc) on my G4 reproducible fail because of /usr/share/debconf/confmodule seems to try to parse lines not intended for it. I added a "set -x" to /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz to show where the error occurs: Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut Lese Status-Informationen ein... Fertig Lese erweiterte Statusinformationen... Fertig Initialisiere Paketstatus... Fertig Schreibe erweiterte Statusinformationen... Fertig Die folgenden teilweise installierten Pakete werden konfiguriert: linux-image-2.6.30-2-powerpc linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc Es werden keine Pakete installiert, aktualisiert oder entfernt. 0 Pakete aktualisiert, 0 zustzlich installiert, 0 werden entfernt und 62 nicht aktualisiert. Muss 0B an Archiven herunterladen. Nach dem Entpacken werden 0B zusätzlich belegt sein. Schreibe erweiterte Statusinformationen... Fertig Richte linux-image-2.6.30-2-powerpc ein (2.6.30-8squeeze1) ... Running depmod. Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-powerpc Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' 1 ']' ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ exec ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec ++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1 ++ export DEBCONF_REDIR + db_get mkvmlinuz/bootloaders + _db_cmd 'GET mkvmlinuz/bootloaders' + IFS=' ' + printf '%s\n' 'GET mkvmlinuz/bootloaders' + IFS=' ' + read -r _db_internal_line + RET='20 Unsupported command "running" (full line was "Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.32-trunk-powerpc: blcr (0.8.2)...failed.") received from confmodule.' + case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in + return 20 run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/mkvmlinuz exited with return code 20 Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc.postinst line 861, <STDIN> line 7. [...] Looks like this time DKMS is the source of the problematic line. The error reported in that problematic line doesn't show up anywhere else although I would expect that it should. Deinstalling blcr-dkms and dkms made the problem vanish. So there are probably two bugs: * mkvmlinuz should display any subsequent error messages it received that way, but doesn't. * Either the blcr-dkms or the dkms package (or both) have a bug and possibly output it on the wrong filehandle (STDIN instead of STDERR or so), so mkvmlinuz gets confused (but IMHO should be able to at least argue about such problems more verbosely). I'm though not 100% sure, if this is a general problem with mkvmlinuz' debconf parsing (or maybe even debconf). Thus only severity normal. Please feel free to change the severity or to reassign if appropriate. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-powerpc Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mkvmlinuz depends on: ii bash 4.0-7 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.145+b1 Debian Configuration Management Sy ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries mkvmlinuz recommends no packages. mkvmlinuz suggests no packages. -- debconf information: mkvmlinuz/bootloaders: yaboot
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--- Begin Message ---tags 560820 unreproducible thanks I'm not able to reproduce this bug in jessie and sid. The root cause of problems like this will be dealt with by fixing bug #407190.
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