Bug#438693: Possible dup of or related to bug#417802

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 438693 dmidecode
retitle 438693 scripts using laptop-detect issue /dev/mem-related error
messages on Xen domUs
forcemerge 417802 438693
thank you



Erik D wrote:
> I am having the same problem with "apt-get install xfonts-100dpi" in a
> domU.
>
> I inserted the "set -x" command into the xfonts-100dpi.postinst script
> and found the culprit to be "laptop-detect".
>
> I also searched for this problem associated with laptop-detect and found
> this bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417802.
>
> The original report looks old compared to the first report date of this
> problem, but it sure looks like the same problem.
>   


Thanks a lot for the explanation. I am reassigning/merging those bugs then.

We should really stop calling laptop-detect in all our maintainer
scripts since it's actually only used in one of them (see #438098).

Brice