Bug#831878: cyphesis-cpp: fails to install in chroot: update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!

Olek olek_nospam at suddenlinkmail.com
Fri Jul 22 01:27:48 UTC 2016


Hi Andreas,

On 07/20/2016 08:50 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: cyphesis-cpp
> Version: 0.6.0-4
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> Hi,
>
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
> per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
> a release, thus the severity.
>
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
>    Selecting previously unselected package cyphesis-cpp.
>    (Reading database ...
> (Reading database ... 9077 files and directories currently installed.)
>    Preparing to unpack .../cyphesis-cpp_0.6.0-4_amd64.deb ...
>    Unpacking cyphesis-cpp (0.6.0-4) ...
>    Setting up cyphesis-cpp (0.6.0-4) ...
>    update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!
>    dpkg: error processing package cyphesis-cpp (--configure):
>     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     cyphesis-cpp
>
>
> This may be related to the fact that piuparts installs the package in a
> minimal chroot, but I've never seen this error message from update-rc.d
> (but there have been quite some changes w.r.t. the initscript helpers
> recnetly) and most packages behave "sanely" in such a setup.

You're right, it was a minor problem related to a change in update-rc.d. 
It's fixed now and pending upload. Thank you for reporting!

-Olek



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