Devuan bug report logs - #826
kmod upgrade creates links from /usr/sbin to ../bin

Package: devuan-project; Maintainer for devuan-project is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>;

Affects: netcat-traditional, initramfs-tools-core, kmod, sed, linux-headers-6.6.8-amd64, firmware-realtek

Reported by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 07:06:02 UTC

Severity: grave

Merged with 812, 813, 821, 823, 827, 828

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:13:27 +1030
Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> wrote:

> Package: kmod
> Version: 31-1
> Followup-For: Bug #826
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
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>    * What led up to the situation?
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> Alternative fix:
> 
> After experimenting, it seems to work if one upgrades to version
> (31-1), then create the following symbolic links:
> 
> # cd /sbin
> am64:/sbin# ln -s /usr/sbin/depmod depmod
> am64:/sbin# ln -s /usr/sbin/insmod insmod
> am64:/sbin# ln -s /usr/sbin/modinfo modinfo
> am64:/sbin# ln -s /usr/sbin/modprobe modprobe
> am64:/sbin# ln -s /usr/sbin/rmmod rmmod
> 
> then re-installing kmod (31-1) so that update-initramfs is run
> successfully.

Hi, please see
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=827
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=828

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>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
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> 
> -- System Information:
> Distributor ID:	Devuan
> Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)
> Release:	6
> Codename:	excalibur ceres
> Architecture: x86_64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.7.0-rc8+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_GB Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> 
> Versions of packages kmod depends on:
> ii  libc6     2.38-5
> ii  libkmod2  31-1
> ii  liblzma5  5.4.5-0.3
> ii  libssl3   3.1.4-2
> ii  libzstd1  1.5.5+dfsg2-2
> 
> kmod recommends no packages.
> 
> kmod suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
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