Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 0.44 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
when the package firmware-linux-nonfree is installed, it triggers the hook of the initramdisk package. I conclude that some firmware may be needed by the initramfs (which makes sense to me), and hence it is important to keep the initramfs up-to-date as firmware is updated. However, only the initramdisk of the latest installed kernel is actually rebuilt: $ sudo aptitude reinstall firmware-linux-nonfree The following packages will be REINSTALLED: firmware-linux-nonfree 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,616 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. (Reading database ... 435647 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../firmware-linux-nonfree_0.44_all.deb ... Unpacking firmware-linux-nonfree (0.44) over (0.44) ... Setting up firmware-linux-nonfree (0.44) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.1.0-rc2+xhci+ For now I manually called "update-initramfs -k all -u" to make sure all kernels boot with the latest firmware. That's obviously not a long-term solution. I am not entirely sure what's going on, but I only see two alternatives: * It doesn't matter that other kernels still use old firmware. But then, why is one kernel's initramfs updated? In this case, the trigger should probably not be triggered anymore. * It *does* matter that all krnels get the latest firmware. In this case, the bug is probably in the initramfs-package, as the trigger should really re-build all the firmwares. Of coruse, I may also be entirely misunderstanding things here - if that's the case, feel free to just close this report. Kind regards, Ralf -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages. firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.120 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150517125056.6673.57991.reportbug@r-schnelltop
