[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug in initramfs-tools

[Loïc Minier]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, martin f krafft wrote:
> initramfs exports MODPROBE_OPTIONS=-qb in /init. This puts it into
> the environment of the entire system:
>   khyber:~# tr '\0' '\n' </proc/1/environ | grep MODPROBE_OPTIONS
>   MODPROBE_OPTIONS=-qb
> Thanks to Tzafrir Cohen for figuring this out. This is also related
> to #505440, which I recorded as a block.

 I filed this upstream bug last month:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/initramfs-tools/+bug/291619


 One good shield would be to clear the env in init -- upstart does this.

 Fixing initramfs-tools should be done, but requires careful work.

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Loïc Minier