Package: module-init-tools
Version: 3.3-pre11-3
Severity: serious
Justification: breaks unrelated packages (such as kernel modules)
Hello,
On my system, after several recent upgrade tentatives, I end up with
tanyaivinco /home/vincent $ cat /sbin/update-modules
#!/bin/sh -e
if [ -x /sbin/update-modules.modutils ]; then
exec /sbin/update-modules.modutils "$*"
fi
exit 0
and
tanyaivinco /home/vincent $ cat /sbin/update-modules.modutils
#!/bin/sh -e
if [ -x /sbin/update-modules.modutils ]; then
exec /sbin/update-modules.modutils "$*"
fi
exit 0
So that running update-modules launches a nasty infinite loop -- and
some kernel module upgrade scripts do... dpkg -S says:
21:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ dpkg -S /sbin/update-modules
diversion by module-init-tools from: /sbin/update-modules
diversion by module-init-tools to: /sbin/update-modules.modutils
module-init-tools: /sbin/update-modules
I'm not really sure from which version this diversion is coming,
as if I purge module-init-tools, the output of dpkg -S is still the
same (without the last line, of course).
Maybe a cleanup of diversions in the next maintainer script
should be of order ? Or is that a file coming from modutils ? (which was
installed recently on my system, but is currently purged).
I set the severity to serious as it leaves my system in a not-so-good
state (enable to install kernel modules)... I do hope, however, that
this is just a corner case.
Regards,
Vincent Fourmond
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages module-init-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
module-init-tools recommends no packages.
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