Package: reportbug Version: 7.1.7 Severity: wishlist Hi! The "System Information" part of reportbug's output doesn't currently mention the kernel's taint state. A bunch of these flags show that something on the system is going pretty badly, thus they're definitely of interest to someone reading such a bug report.
The state can be read via /proc/sys/kernel/tainted which provides a decimal integer value, with bits meaning the following: 'P', /* TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE */ 'F', /* TAINT_FORCED_MODULE */ 'S', /* TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC */ 'R', /* TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD */ 'M', /* TAINT_MACHINE_CHECK */ 'B', /* TAINT_BAD_PAGE */ 'U', /* TAINT_USER */ 'D', /* TAINT_DIE */ 'A', /* TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE */ 'W', /* TAINT_WARN */ 'C', /* TAINT_CRAP */ 'I', /* TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND */ 'O', /* TAINT_OOT_MODULE */ 'E', /* TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE */ 'L', /* TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP */ 'K', /* TAINT_LIVEPATCH */ Meow! -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="jstar" EMAIL="kilob...@angband.pl" INTERFACE="text" ** /home/kilobyte/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "3.17" mode advanced ui text -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-rc5-debug-00017-g6afe0ac16d2b (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.4.6 ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3-reportbug 7.1.7 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> pn debconf-utils <none> ii debsums 2.2.2 pn dlocate <none> pn emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common <none> ii exim4 4.89-2 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.89-2 ii file 1:5.30-1 pn gir1.2-gtk-3.0 <none> pn gir1.2-vte-2.91 <none> ii gnupg 2.1.18-8 pn python3-gi <none> pn python3-gi-cairo <none> pn python3-gtkspellcheck <none> pn python3-urwid <none> ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on: ii apt 1.4.6 ii file 1:5.30-1 ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.30 ii python3-debianbts 2.6.1 ii python3-requests 2.12.4-1 python3-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint