Bug#726027: Required-Start: $remote_fs for rcS type services (early boot) can lead to dependency loops

[Marc Glisse]

severity 726027 critical
thanks

"makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break", 
pretty much what I am seeing here. The recent upgrades pulled in systemd 
(it is very hard to avoid currently) and made the system unbootable. The 
workaround I found was to boot in debug mode, run 
"/etc/init.d/network-manager start" then exit so normal boot would resume.

Looking through messages, I noticed that systemd was breaking a loop by 
disabling (at least) rpcbind and nfs-common and eventually found this bug. 
Following the instructions, I sed s/remote_fs/local_fs/ for all the 
Required-Start: in /etc/rcS.d, and the next boot seems to have worked just 
fine.

Raising the severity so people know to postpone any upgrade that tries to 
install systemd, unless they are ready to spend some time fixing their 
system afterwards.

(the merge with 738965 doesn't seem to have worked)

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Marc Glisse