Bug#541702: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: Kernel fails to start networking because no e100 firmware
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686
Version: 2.6.30-5
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
On upgrade from 2.6.30-2-686 networking (on a remote machine) failed to
start, meaning that a support ticket had to be opened for KVM access.
Diagnosis revealed that the e100 driver in 2.6.26-2-686 required no
firmware, so the firmware-linux package wasn't installed. Apparently
2.6.30-1-686 was built with external firmware for the e100 so it now
depends on the firmware-linux package.
This is a serious policy violation because required hardware stops
working after the upgrade.
Fix suggested is to make 2.6.30-1-686 depend on linux-firmware so that
on upgrade the necessary firmware is present.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93.4 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.9-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-55 GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy pa
ii grub-legacy [grub] 0.97-55 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn linux-doc-2.6.30 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.30-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.30-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.30-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.30-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.30-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.30-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.30-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.30-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.30-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.30-1-686: false
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