Ubuntu
binfmt-support package

dpkg install should not assume any services are running. I had to do apt-get dist-upgrade in emergency mode and it broke because this service assumed it could do update-binfmt from a kernel this distribution did not own.

Bug #564364 reported by Joshua
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
binfmt-support (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: qemu-kvm

dpkg install should not assume any services are running. I had to do apt-get dist-upgrade in emergency mode and it broke because this service assumed it could do update-binfmt on a kernel it did not own.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: qemu-kvm (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 15 19:34:23 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm

Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

This sounds like a good idea to me.

Regards
chuck

Changed in qemu-kvm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Joshua (joshudson) wrote :

Update: this is actually a bug in update-binfmt, which is a dependency of qemu-kvm

Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)
affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) → binfmt-support (Ubuntu)
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I think this is essentially the same thing as bug 534211, or at least can be fixed in the same way. I'm working on an upstream fix now.

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