[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#514805: Error message pcspkr on boot from hard disk

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 514805 initramfs-tools
severity 514805 minor
thanks

Hi Iuga,

thanks for your bugreport.

On Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009, Iuga Marian Silviu wrote:
> When I install Debian Lenny RC2 on hard disk,in Qemu, when I boot up,
> an error message appears, after witch all continues.
> Here is a transcript:
>
> Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[   121.386236] Error: Driver
> 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
>
> I suggest that this error message be avoided.

I agree that this error message shouldn't be there. 

It's totally harmless but it's also a totally useless error message, which 
might confuse/scare novice users. I guess it's caused by the initramfs 
loading the pcspkr module and then /etc/init.d/module-init-tools doing the 
same.

I've opted for reassigning this bug to initramfs-tools, because I cannot 
really see a valid reason for this module be used in an initramfs - with the 
exception of support for accessibility. So maybe this bug should be fixed 
elsewhere - feel free to reassign further :)


regards,
	Holger
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