pr-reportbug@pr.neotoma.org wrote: > This started with > /dev/mem: mmap: Bad address during apt-get -u dist-upgrade on my > Xen domUs. > > A little research found the following > http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=82 Thanks, I had wondered why my slice and another Xen instance were doing that.. > Building dependency tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > dmidecode* laptop-detect* tasksel* tasksel-data* > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 3645kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > > > Which removes a bit more than I'd like. But not because tasksel depends on dmidecode. Tasksel has a dependency on laptop-detect, which in turn depends on dmidecode. So do several other packages: joey@kodama:~>apt-cache rdepends dmidecode dmidecode Reverse Depends: sitesummary-client laptop-detect sitesummary-client laptop-detect hotkey-setup education-common acpi-support Tasksel's laptop-detect dependency cannot be removed. > Looking through the bug reports, I don't know whether to start here, > thereby hurting users using tasksel to select the desktop task, > or punt the bug over the dmidecode folks to run a test for Xen > before doing the mmap(). IMHO dmidecode should be fixed. -- see shy jo
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