[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#652097: sysvinit: breaks system on reboot

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-12-14 21:10 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:36:50PM -0600, Brian Paterni wrote:
>> The new sysv packages in experimental look like they are breaking my system.
>
> Sorry to hear that.  Knowing what went wrong here would help
> correct it.  I'm running it without issues, but that's not
> to say your system is not different in some way.
>
>> reboot via # shutdown -r now, or # shutdown -h now, do not work, and the only
>> way to reboot my machine is with magic-sysrq-b or hard reset.
>> 
>> When the machine comes up again, login is displayed way too early (~3 seconds
>> after grub), and once I login, the system seems to be severly broken...
>> nothing besides root is mounted, hostname is not displayed, network has not
>> been brought up, etc...
>
> When you upgraded the packages, did you install all of
> sysvinit, sysvinit-utils, sysv-rc and initscripts, or
> just a subset?

I'm having the same problem after upgrading all four packages, and it
disappeared after downgrading sysvinit-utils to the version in unstable.

Symptoms: On entering runlevel 6, sulogin was spawned, no way out except
with sysrq keys.  After a reboot, none of the initscripts had run when
runlevel 2 was entered.

HTH,
    Sven