Package: kexec-tools Version: 1.101-2 Severity: minor If the package is recompiled while zlib is installed, zlib support is automatically added. This is a problem for rebuilders, since libz.so lives in /usr/lib/, which might not be available when doing a kexec-reboot: The current practice to include kexec-support is to modify /etc/init.d/reboot, which is executed after unmounting all file systems, so no /usr/lib/libz.so is available. So kexec doesn't start and the reboot process hangs, becaue the shell seems not be be able to continue and is not able to fall back to the standard shutdown procedure.
This happened to me while recompiling kexec-tools for my personel sarge-backport on a box with zlib-dev installed and is also by the backport.org backport: $ apt-cache show kexec-tools Package: kexec-tools ... Version: 1.101-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) ... Version: 1.101-2pmhahn0 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) ... Version: 1.101-1bpo1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) According to the output of "configure --help", zlib-support is only needed for gamecube support: --without-zlib disable gamecube support -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (989, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-laptop Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages kexec-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries kexec-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
