Bug#902946: Fails to load autofs module through autofs4 alias

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 important

Am 03.07.2018 um 23:08 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 03.07.2018 um 20:11 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 239-1
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> Starting with Linux 4.18, the autofs4 kernel module is renamed
>> to autofs, but retaining an 'autofs4' alias.
>>
>> Despite the presence of the alias, systemd fails to load the
>> autofs module:
>>
>>     systemd[1]: Failed to insert module 'autofs4': No such file or directory
>>
>> Opened as 'serious' since I think autofs supports critical
>> functionality in systemd.

I've decided to downgrade the severity of this bug report for now, given
that the kernel is not yet available in the archive and it's kinda odd
alerting/scaring users about an issue via apt-listbugs (and making the
package put on hold) when they are not actually affected.

Once such a kernel hits unstable, the issue should be raised again to
serious, assuming no other solution has been found by then.
It might make sense if the linux package would gain a versioned Breaks
against systemd, assuming the fix has to be done in systemd itself.
I would appreciate if the 4.18 linux package could stay in experimental
until a solution has been found either way.

Regards,
Michael

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