[GTALUG] Anyone else having issues with 6.9.12-1 kernel?

[Michael Galea]

On 2024-08-06 10:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 07:38:12PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
>> This kernel has been pretty awful for me. On my desktop it barfs while
>> trying to build nvidia support via dkms, with some sort of signing error.
>>
>> On my laptop, after install I get a 251Mb initrd after install, compared to
>> the 44Mb initrd of the 6.7.12 kernel it replaced.
>>
>> Is anyone else that is running debian testing seeing these issues?
> 
> Some initrd growth has definitely happened recently due to some kernel
> changes.  I don't recall exactly what was added, maybe a bunch of firmware
> files or something.
> 
> Looks like it is some enormous nvidia firmware files:
> https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=804049#p804049
> 
> As for signing, I have never run the signed kernel as I have never turned
> on secureboot on any system, so signing issues have never been a problem.
> 
Thanks!  I'm mow on 6.10.3 unsigned from sid now, with new nvidia sources.
Everything running fine.  But I'm confused on two issues.
1) It seems that debian has some sort of preference for signed over 
unsigned kernels.
When I uninstalled a 6.9.12 unsigned kernel, it launched into installing 
a 6.9.12 signed
kernel which I had around.
2) My linux-image-amd64 package is status rc at 6.9.12-1. But upgrading 
it wants to
uninstall linux-image-6.10.3-amd64-unsigned and install 
linux-image-6.10.3-amd64!

Is there some way to make debian prefer the unsigned kernel?
-- 
Michael Galea