Runs depmod unnecessarily outside of /target

Bug #251117 reported by Matt Zimmerman
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

At two points during installation (immediately after keyboard selection, and again during "Configuring hardware" near the end), ubiquity seems to run depmod in the live CD environment. This scans all of the kernel modules on the CD, which takes quite some time and seems unnecessary. depmod is also called once in /target, which is reasonably fast and probably a good idea.

Tags: iso-testing

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The first is partman. I'm not sure what the second is about. Perhaps the right answer is to put a stub depmod in /usr/lib/ubiquity/compat.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → kamion
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.9.7

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ubiquity (1.9.7) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Properly fix intltool dependency. Remove old copies of intltool
    scripts.
  * Add an auto-login option to the "Who are you?" page.

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Ensure that some widget is focused after changing page (LP: #241367).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Add a no-op compatibility shim for depmod. Some d-i code calls it after
    calling anna-install in order to make sure that new kernel modules are
    installed properly; this is unnecessary and slow in the live CD
    environment (LP: #251117).
  * Brown-paper-bag bug: open /target/var/log/installer/oem-id for writing
    (LP: #251751).
  * Update summary page to fetch the language name correctly from the new
    localechooser.
  * Set SCIM_USER and SCIM_HOME to force scim to use configuration and
    sockets from the live CD user rather than root (LP: #234208).
  * Use a single private debconf-communicate instance for five queries in
    base frontend initialisation rather than using the debconf_operation
    wrapper. This is less convenient, but significantly speeds up startup
    (in a kvm instance here, 19 seconds -> 4 seconds).
  * Remove hardcoded invisible_char properties in order to use GTK's
    defaults (LP: #225882).
  * GTK frontend:
    - Don't translate step_label when switching to the language page;
      on_language_treeview_selection_changed will take care of it if
      necessary, and the page-switch handler may not know the correct
      language (LP: #225876).
    - Bind the Delete key on the partition list to "Delete partition"
      (LP: #218936).
  * KDE frontend:
    - Make "Details" string on summary page translatable (LP: #190491).
  * Depend on rdate for clock-setup.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.37ubuntu3,
    clock-setup 0.96ubuntu1, localechooser 2.03ubuntu2, user-setup
    1.20ubuntu4.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:13:38 +0100

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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