On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 16:48 -0500, debian wrote: > so, what's to be done now? Marco d'Itri says that this error is > pointless, Bjørn says that this is normal and this behaviour is expected > sometimes (kmod looking for nonexistent stuff) > > is it just a harmless error "spam"? update the system as usual and just > ignore the error "waterfall" in the console? use the patch (the edited > line in /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs) and then update? Printing spurious error messages is a bug, and we will fix it (whether in kmod or in initramfs-tools, is to be decided). But since (so far as I know) there hasn't been any regression in the functioning of the resulting initramfs, the bug doesn't need to be fixed right this instant. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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