[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#714255: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: unable to write to /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/rsyslog.service.dsh-also

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: init-system-helpers
Version: 1.3
Severity: normal

Todays upgrade pulled in init-system-helpers, which fails to write a file
because the directory /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/ does
not exist. It prints an error message, but does not abort. If it is an
error, it should abort; otherwise it should not be an error message.

# apt-get install rsyslog
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libgd2-xpm
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  init-system-helpers
Suggested packages:
  rsyslog-mysql rsyslog-pgsql rsyslog-mongodb rsyslog-doc rsyslog-gnutls rsyslog-gssapi rsyslog-relp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  init-system-helpers
The following packages will be upgraded:
  rsyslog
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 710 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://localhost:3142/debian/ sid/main init-system-helpers all 1.3 [11.4 kB]
Get:2 http://localhost:3142/debian/ sid/main rsyslog amd64 7.4.1-2 [698 kB]
Fetched 710 kB in 1s (375 kB/s)  
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
Selecting previously unselected package init-system-helpers.
(Reading database ... 214775 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking init-system-helpers (from .../init-system-helpers_1.3_all.deb) ...
Preparing to replace rsyslog 7.4.1-1 (using .../rsyslog_7.4.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement rsyslog ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up init-system-helpers (1.3) ...
Setting up rsyslog (7.4.1-2) ...
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: unable to write to /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/rsyslog.service.dsh-also
[ ok ] Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
[ ok ] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (980, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages init-system-helpers depends on:
ii  perl  5.14.2-21

init-system-helpers recommends no packages.

init-system-helpers suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.