Bug#417802: tasksel: Depends on dmidecode which won't work under a Xen domU
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.66
Severity: normal
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
and then the bottom of
http://bitfolk.com/customer_information.html
pakrat@vm01:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo apt-get --purge remove dmidecode
Reading package lists... Done
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.
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().
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-xen-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tasksel depends on:
ii aptitude 0.4.4-4 terminal-based apt frontend
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internati
ii tasksel-data 2.66 Official tasks used for installati
tasksel recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
tasksel/first:
tasksel/tasks:
tasksel/title:
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