Package: dkms Version: 2.1.1.2-2 Severity: important When invoking dkms after installing a new kernel, the kernel postinst script hides all errors. It pipes the output of /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller to /dev/null, and does not check its return code. If any of the modules dkms is attempting to build are important, this could be a serious problem.
Running dkms_autoinstaller by hand, it does not produce much output, even if there is an error (one line per module build attempted), so it seems reasonable to not pipe the output to /dev/null. And if the module build(s) fail, shouldn't the postinst script fail as well? Of course I just checked, and dkms_autoinstaller does not exit with an error code in the case of module build(s) failing, which also seems wrong. Nor does it send any output to stderr. It seems to me like it ought to do both. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.5-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dkms depends on: ii build-essential 11.5 Informational list of build-essent ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.1 Debian package development tools ii gcc 4:4.4.3-1 The GNU C compiler ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati ii module-init-tools 3.12~pre2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages dkms recommends: ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment pn linux-headers-2.6-686 | linux <none> (no description available) ii linux-image-2.6.31-1 [linux-i 1 Linux kernel binary image for vers ii linux-image-2.6.31.6-1 [linux 1 Linux kernel binary image for vers ii linux-image-2.6.32.5-1 [linux 4 Linux kernel binary image for vers ii linux-image-2.6.34-1 [linux-i 1 Linux kernel binary image for vers ii lsb-release 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report ii menu 2.1.43 generates programs menu for all me ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii sudo 1.7.2p6-1 Provide limited super user privile dkms suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
