On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 23:03 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > Package: kexec-tools > Version: 20080324-2 > Severity: normal > > > I've just installed kexec-tools and was surprised to find that, rather than > just > packaging the kexec executable, you have installed a script so that kexec is > used > when I reboot. I didn't want that. This feature - and how to disable it - > are > not described in the documentation as far as I can see. Can you please add > some > documentation describing this? I would also vote for disabling it by default. > > It also seems that the kernel which you run will not in general be the one > that > was running before the reboot. Is that what users would have expected? > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > > >
Please see <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426506> that led to this change in behavior. kexec-tools 20080227 added a debconf option to ask the user if they want kexec to handle reboots or not. Current version in leeny has this debconf option. This should address your concern. If kexec reboots are enabled, a kexec reboot will load the kernel /vmlinuz. Unless a user has built custom kernels, the last kernel installed by a debian package would update /vmlinuz link to point to the kernel installed by it which is typically the latest kernel and which is what most typical users want to boot. This default can be changed in /etc/default/kexec. -- =================== Khalid Aziz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
