Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.024
Severity: normal
My .kernel-pkg.conf contains (and has for as long as I can remember) the
line:
install_vmlinux := YES
This is done so that I can use Oprofile's --vmlinux capabilities. The
uncompressed kernel image was obviously never intended as a boot target.
With the recent move to grub2 in Unstable, installations of kernels are
now regularly adding bogus grub menuentries ala:
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31.5" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7c81edeb-4342-47f7-88b5-959a213e6c76
linux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.31.5 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
}
These entries are unbootable. The issue is grave due to vmlinux entries
being listed above vmlinuz, thus becoming the default. Unattended
reboots become an impossibility without first purging these entries.
Here's the non-commented content of my kernel-image configs:
[recombinator](0) $ grep -v ^# .kernel-pkg.conf /etc/kernel-img.conf
.kernel-pkg.conf:
.kernel-pkg.conf:CONCURRENCY_LEVEL = 2
.kernel-pkg.conf:
.kernel-pkg.conf:maintainer := Nick Black #
(KPKG_MAINTAINER)
.kernel-pkg.conf:email := [email protected] # (KPKG_EMAIL)
.kernel-pkg.conf:debian_revision_mandatory := True #
(DEBIAN_REVISION_MANDATORY)
.kernel-pkg.conf:link_in_boot := True # (LINK_IN_BOOT)
.kernel-pkg.conf:priority := Low
.kernel-pkg.conf:root_cmd := fakeroot # (ROOT_CMD)
.kernel-pkg.conf:do_clean := YES # (CLEAN_SOURCE)
.kernel-pkg.conf:install_vmlinux := YES
/etc/kernel-img.conf:link_in_boot = no
/etc/kernel-img.conf:do_symlinks = yes
/etc/kernel-img.conf:postinst_hook = update-grub
/etc/kernel-img.conf:postrm_hook = update-grub
/etc/kernel-img.conf:do_bootloader = no
/etc/kernel-img.conf:relative_links = yes
/etc/kernel-img.conf:do_initrd = yes
[recombinator](0) $
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent
ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii file 5.03-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii make 3.81-6 An utility for Directing compilati
ii module-init-tools 3.11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t
ii util-linux 2.16.1-4 Miscellaneous system utilities
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii cpio 2.10-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-1.1 Convert Docbook files to other for
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20090803-2 developer's libraries and docs for
pn linux-initramfs-tool <none> (no description available)
pn linux-source | kernel-sou <none> (no description available)
ii xmlto 0.0.23-2 XML-to-any converter
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