Package: netconsole Version: 0.1-1 Severity: serious Hi,
netconsole fails to install for me as follows on amd64 (sysvinit, report written on this machine) and i386 (PAE, openrc): Setting up netconsole (0.1-1) ... netconsole-setup: Kernel config directory /sys/kernel/config not present. netconsole-setup: configfs probably not mounted; mounting configfs... mount: /sys/kernel/config: mount point does not exist. invoke-rc.d: initscript netconsole, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package netconsole (--configure): installed netconsole package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: netconsole On arm64 (systemd, Raspberry Pi 3) it fails, too, as follows: Setting up netconsole (0.1-1) ... Job for netconsole.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status netconsole.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript netconsole, action "start" failed. ● netconsole.service - Dynamically configure Linux netconsole Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/netconsole.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-11-09 01:25:46 UTC; 43ms ago Docs: man:netconsole-setup(8) Process: 5720 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/netconsole-setup $NETCONSOLE_OPTS (code=exited, status=32) Main PID: 5720 (code=exited, status=32) Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 systemd[1]: Starting Dynamically configure Linux netconsole... Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 netconsole-setup[5720]: netconsole-setup: Kernel config directory /sys/kernel/config not present. Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 netconsole-setup[5720]: netconsole-setup: configfs probably not mounted; mounting configfs... Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 netconsole-setup[5720]: mount: /sys/kernel/config: mount point does not exist. Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 systemd[1]: netconsole.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=32/n/a Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 systemd[1]: netconsole.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 09 01:25:46 rpi3 systemd[1]: Failed to start Dynamically configure Linux netconsole. dpkg: error processing package netconsole (--configure): installed netconsole package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: netconsole -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages netconsole depends on: ii iputils-arping 3:20180629-2 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 netconsole recommends no packages. netconsole suggests no packages. -- no debconf information