Bug#640391: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae: ark3116 driver regression
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:07:17PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 19:42 +0100, ael wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Version: 3.0.0-3
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: upstream
> >
> >
> > Regression in the ark3116 (perhaps interaction with usbserial).
> >
> > The hardware is a USB ->serial port converter.
> > It was last used on this machine running debian testing in December
> > 2011. It ran successfully with the debian kernel at that time.
>
> Please can you test with an older kernel package (they are still
> available from <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux-2.6/>) to
> verify that this is definitely a difference between kernel versions.
I have just downloaded and attempted to install
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-26lenny1_i386.deb
I selected that on the basis of the timestamp in the snapshot pool.
As anticipated, dependency hell started:
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-26lenny1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.26-2-686.
(Reading database ... 181698 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (from linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-26lenny1_i386.deb) ...
Could not find mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 234, <STDIN> line 9.
Done.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-26lenny1) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.26-2-686 on running kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae in mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yaird
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
I guess that I could use some of the -force switches, and I should be
able to get grub2 to load the kernel, but I am not sure about the rest
without of lot of time and effort.
Any suggestions for a better way, or a better kernal test? I am not sure
that a sort of manual git-bisect on the debian kernels is feasible
given my limited time and bandwidth away from home.
ael
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