Package: udev Version: 175-5 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Recently, bug #654282 was fixed by not attempting to include unix.ko in initrd images. I run custom kernels with a high degree of modularization, so a side effect of this change was that my systems became unbootable without warning. Fortunately the postinst script only updates the initrd image for the latest kernel, so I was able to boot into an earlier one and downgrade udev back to 175-3.1. I suggest checking for the presence of the unix.ko module when generating the initrd and including it if necessary. Since manual_add_modules already effectively checks for the presence of the module, perhaps it could return a status code to let force_load know not to add the module in conf/modules. If implementing the above is not possible, please check for the presence of unix.ko (or, equivalently, CONFIG_UNIX=m) when upgrading udev and issue a warning about unbootable system if it exists. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.1-core2 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.45 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii libudev0 175-5 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 ii procps 1:3.3.3-2 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.1 Versions of packages udev recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.1.9-5 ii usbutils 1:005-3 udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
