Package: dracut
Version: 044+241-3
Severity: normal
Upon a recent system upgrade, i see:
Setting up linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 (4.9.25-1) ...
I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-amd64
I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-amd64
I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-3-amd64
I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-3-amd64
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dracut:
dracut: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-3-amd64
/usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in
input
/usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in
input
/usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in
input
/usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in
input
/usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in
input
/usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in
input
this goes on for dozens of lines, all kvetching about line 1624.
Looking at /usr/bin/dracut, i see this:
1621 # strip kernel modules, but do not touch signed modules
1622 find "$initdir" -type f -path '*/lib/modules/*.ko' -print0 \
1623 | while read -r -d $'\0' f || [ -n "$f" ]; do
1624 SIG=$(tail -c 28 "$f")
1625 [[ $SIG == '~Module signature appended~' ]] || { printf "%s\000"
1626 done | xargs -r -0 strip -g
I'm not sure what to make of the warning; it seems ike it might just
be extra noise, but it suggests that something isn't working as
expected.
--dkg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200,
'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dracut depends on:
ii dracut-core 044+241-3
dracut recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dracut suggests:
pn dracut-network <none>
-- no debconf information
