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  • Bug#1100955: initscripts: Wants to remove the running kernel

    From Thorsten Glaser@21:1/5 to Bjarni Ingi Gislason on Fri Mar 21 02:40:01 2025
    On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:

    ~#apt-get dist-upgrade

    * What was the outcome of this action?

    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    dracut-install libatopology2t64 linux-doc-6.1
    Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    alsa-utils initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core kmod linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 linux-image-6.12.12-amd64
    linux-image-6.12.17-amd64 linux-image-amd64
    The following packages will be upgraded:
    initscripts
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    Ouch!

    Can you do:

    # apt-get install initscripts linux-image-amd64
    # apt-get install initscripts kmod
    # apt-get install initscripts alsa-utils

    Or some combination of packages until we can see a good cause?

    The output from those apt commands can be useful in debugging.

    bye,
    //mirabilos
    --
    Yes, I hate users and I want them to suffer.
    -- Marco d'Itri on gmane.linux.debian.devel.general

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  • From Mark Hindley@21:1/5 to Bjarni Ingi Gislason on Fri Mar 21 07:30:01 2025
    Control: reassign -1 kmod

    Bjarni,

    Thanks.

    This is caused by the version of kmod that dropped /etc/init.d/kmod not having migrated to testing [1]

    On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:04:17PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
    ~#apt-get update

    The following packages have been kept back:
    initscripts
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

    Apt is doing the right thing here and waiting until initscripts and kmod can be upgraded in sysnc as determined by Breaks.

    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
    ineffective)?

    ~#apt-get dist-upgrade

    Don't try to force it because it has the undesired effects you observe.

    Once a suitable version of kmod migrates, I think this will resolve. But since the kmod autopkgtest regressions are causing the failure to migrate, I will reassign.

    Mark

    [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=kmod

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