Trusty kexec-tools suffer from upstream code regression. Fix not included.

I'm providing the following PPA;

https://launchpad.net/~inaddy/+archive/ubuntu/lp1705054

with a test package in order to verify if the patch fixes the issue.

The attachment "trusty_kexec-tools_2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3.debdiff" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

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Hi Rafael,

The Trusty debdiff has been uploaded in the Trusty upload queue[1], and now waiting for the SRU verification team to approve the upload for the package to start building in trusty-proposed.

[1] - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=kexec-tools

Eric

@slashd beat me to the upload, but it looks good to me.

Hey Dave, nice to read from you. User has tested and confirmed it worked. I'll wait for verification. Tks for reviewing it!

Hello Rafael, or anyone else affected,

Accepted kexec-tools into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kexec-tools/1:2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

## VERIFICATION TRUSTY ###

I was easily able to reproduce the situation explained by Rafael above using Trusty with the "kexec-tools" package prior to version "2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3".

I confirm the situation is fix now with "2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3".

[Confirmation]

# release
root@ubuntu:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS"

# dpkg
ii kexec-tools 1:2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3 amd64 tools to support fast kexec reboots

# Reproducer output :
root@ubuntu:~# kexec -l --reuse-cmdline --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`

root@ubuntu:~# /usr/sbin/kdump-config load
 * loaded kdump kernel

- Eric

This bug was fixed in the package kexec-tools - 1:2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3

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kexec-tools (1:2.0.6-0ubuntu2.3) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Fixes non-efi systems, upstream code regression not present (LP: #1705054)

 -- Rafael David Tinoco <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:11:24 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for kexec-tools has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.