Devuan bug report logs - #407
eudev preinst fails to detect availability of requisite kernel features

Package: eudev; Maintainer for eudev is Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for eudev is src:eudev.

Reported by: KORN Andras <korn-debbugs@elan.rulez.org>

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 383

Found in versions 3.2.9-7, 3.2.2-13

Fixed in version 3.2.9-10

Done: dak@devuan.org

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reopen 383
forcemerge 407 383
tags 407 + patch
thanks

After looking a bit more deeply into this I find that it is still open.

It only bites if you are running a too new kernel while upgrading from
someting below 3.2.7-1 to 3.2.7-1 or greater. And while not being chrooted.

I propose the patch of András:

--- ./eudev.preinst     2020-11-07 21:09:24.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/eudev.preinst  2021-04-26 18:25:02.970434903 +0200
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

       local needed_symbols='inotify_init signalfd accept4 open_by_handle_at timerfd_create epoll_create'
       for symbol in $needed_symbols; do
-      if ! egrep -q "^[a-fA-F0-9]+ T \.?sys_${symbol}$" /proc/kallsyms; then
+      if ! egrep -q "^[a-fA-F0-9]+ T .*sys_${symbol}$" /proc/kallsyms; then
          cat <<END
 Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in
 the running kernel:

----
It leaves open corner cases but less than the version before.

cu

AW
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Devuan bug report logs - #407 eudev preinst fails to detect availability of requisite kernel features

Devuan bug report logs - #407
eudev preinst fails to detect availability of requisite kernel features