Re: DO NOT UPGRADE KMOD to 33+20240816-1
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:24 PM Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>
> Sedat Dilek - 20.08.24, 11:46:59 CEST:
> > Getting WEIRD.
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/1079022#106
>
> Bit off topic here, but still:
>
> apt-listbugs to the rescue:
>
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs:
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> Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2024-08-20 10:20:32 +0200
> Explanation: #1079022: kmod: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install: undefined symbol: kmod_module_get_weakdeps, version LIBKMOD_5
> Explanation: #1079035: kmod: latest upgrade break system startup
> Package: libkmod2
> Pin: version 32+20240611-1
> Pin-Priority: 30000
>
> First I verified that it seems to also affect initramfs-tools which I use.
>
> Now whatever the discussion about the bug, this pinning is only removed
> by apt-listbugs once the bug has been marked as fixed.
>
> Again, apt-listbugs only helps when there is a bug with severity of at
> least "serious". So no guarantee. But it saved me a lot of hassle often
> enough that I bear with the additional time it can take to retrieve bug
> report information. Waiting a few seconds to up to a minute or so is
> way less amount of time than fixing up things after a breakage.
>
initramfs-tools(-core) uses dracut-install.
You displayed bugs about kmod, but others say fix dracut-install.
The question is which package should be fixed and what is the simple -
and quick - solution.
Let's see how this will continue (see [3]).
-Sedat-
[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/initramfs-tools
[2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/initramfs-tools-core
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/1079038#29
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/commit/?id=7d72b22385786b232eafcd3cbfc44653909866da
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