reassign 395526 initramfs-tools
thanks

I have no motivation to deal with broken behaviour of each and every
package and I am not paid for that work either. There is almost nothing
that initramfs may need from the slamr module.

Eduard.

#include <hallo.h>
* Mau [Fri, Oct 27 2006, 05:04:05PM]:
> Package: sl-modem-daemon
> Version: 2.9.9d+e-pre2-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Since a couple of weeks initramfs-tools started to add slamr.ko in the
> initrd for some reason; even if the module ungrab-winmodem.ko was _not_
> copied, as the slamr module does not indicate any dependence, the slamr
> module was loaded during the initrd phase.
> 
> In /etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon, line 76, the exit status of
> modprobe slamr is evaluated in order to check the availability of the
> slamr module, but modprobe does not return an exit status != 0 when the
> requested module was already loaded: this way the script can't assure that the
> module was loaded in a sane way.
> 
> A quick-and-dirty way to solve this issue could be to unload and reload
> the module: modprobe will care the correct initialization
> (/etc/modprobe.d/sl-modem-daemon.modutils) and the daemon won't die
> anymore.
> 
> There are also 2 other ways to solve:
> 1. adding to the slamr module a dependence to ungrab-winmodem;
> 2. adding a hook to initramfs-tools which _deletes_ the slamr module in
>    case it was copied to initrd, which is the solution I'm using now.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Mau
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-p4
> Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: 
> LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> Versions of packages sl-modem-daemon depends on:
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.7       Debian configuration management 
> sy
> ii  libasound2                   1.0.13-1    ALSA library
> ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> 
> sl-modem-daemon recommends no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * sl-modem-daemon/country: CTR21EUROPE
> 

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