Bug#680649: linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64: Restoring from hibernate requires rerunning /etc/init.d/kbd start manually to fix broken consoles

[Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>]

For some reason a new apt-get dist-upgrade fixed bug. A new kernel
package was pulled but the version did not change.

On 7/7/12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joshua wrote:
>
>> Version: 3.0.0-3
> [...]
>> I have some nonstandard console settings that require running
>> /etc/init.d/kbd to configure console.  Using the newer console-setup
>> is a non-starter for reasons that are not relevant at this time.
>>
>> Somewhere in the last two months (it's hard to tell exactly), there
>> was a regression such that after restoring from hibernate, some
>> console settings are not restored correctly. Running /etc/init.d/kbd
>> start successfully restores them.
>
> Thanks for reporting.  Before investigating further, a few questions:
>
> The Debian kernel team does not maintain 3.0.y any more.  Does a 3.2.y
> or 3.4.y kernel reproduce the problem?
>
> You mentioned that this is a regression.  What is the oldest broken
> kernel and newest non-broken one you know of?  (/var/log/dpkg.log
> might help to jog memory, and there are precompiled historical kernels
> at http://snapshot.debian.org/ if you need to test some.)
>
> Can you more precisely describe the symptoms?  If I had the same
> hardware as you, what steps should I perform to reproduce the bug,
> what is the expected result, what happens instead, and how does the
> difference indicate a bug?
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
>