Debian Bug report logs - #314219
setserial: package configure goes wrong

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Knoke <chrisk@cknoke.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: setserial: package configure goes wrong

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:15:07 +0200

Package: setserial
Version: 2.17-40
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages setserial depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.13    Debian configuration management
sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an

-- debconf information:
  setserial/autosave: true
  setserial/rc-boot-file-removed:
  setserial/rc-boot-file-renamed:
* setserial/autosave-types: manual
  setserial/update-modules-failed:


I have standard pc ports which I wish to configure with different speeds.
I configure them with setserial and then use

 dpkg-reconfigure setserial

and choose 'autosave once'. But the config isn't saved as expected. The
files in /var/lib/setserial/ are not updated.

/etc/serial.conf does not exist at this time. I create it. After that, I do

 invoke-rc.d setserial restart

but the configuration isn't changed to that in serial.conf.

Rebooting sets the correct parameters.

The comment in /etc/init.d/setserial 

# Note that this has been changed so that if /etc/serial.conf exists,
# this script does not configure the ports. It uses
# /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf # instead, which is handled by another
# init.d script. However, the script is still used for module loads and
# unloads, even if serial.conf exists.

is confusing at this point.

Maybe another script sets the configuration during boot? Or the comment is
wrong? autoserial.conf has still the old wrong parameters, so this can't be
the source.

Christian


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Message #10 received at 314219@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Craig Maloney <craig@decafbad.net>

To: 314219@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Question re: bug 314219

Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:51:25 -0500

Hello,

I'm currently tracking a bug in Ubuntu on the Ubuntu Launchpad. It seems
setserial is not currently affecting any of the serial ports on the
machine. Is this bug going to be addressed in the future, or is there a
more preferred method for changing the settings for serial ports?

Thanks!
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Message #15 received at 314219@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>

To: 314219@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Christian Knoke <chrisk@cknoke.de>, Craig Maloney <craig@decafbad.net>

Subject: Re: setserial: package configure goes wrong

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:47:18 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

there are two init scripts to configure serial ports:
  /etc/init.d/setserial
  /etc/init.d/etc-setserial

In case of an existing /etc/serial.conf, the script /etc/init.d/setserial 
can be only used to handle modules or get some status.
The actual configuration will be done by /etc/init.d/etc-setserial. So your
  invoke-rc.d setserial restart
should have been
  invoke-rc.d etc-setserial restart
Thats why your configuration changed only when you rebooted.

Anyway, I am not able to reproduce your originally problem with files in 
/var/lib/setserial not changing after dpkg-reconfigure
Do you still see that problem with a recent versin of the package? 
Otherwise I would close that bug now.

Thorsten

Message #20 received at 314219-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>

To: 314219-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: setserial: package configure goes wrong

Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:31:46 +0200 (CEST)

Package: setserial
Version: 2.17-48

closing this bug now. In case yo think this is wrong, please reopen it.

  Thorsten

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