[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#741597: anacron stopped immediately at boot if acpi-support is installed

[Andreas B. Mundt]

reassign 741597 acpi-support
retitle  741597 wrong power state detected at boot: anacron fails if acpi-support is installed
thanks


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:56:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
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> So, systemd works as expected afaics. That the anacron service is
> stopped by pm-powersave via acpi-support is not something which can be
> dealt with in systemd.
> From what I understand you'll also get this behaviour of anacron being
> stopped by pm-powersave/acpi-support under sysvinit, you just never
> noticed it due to sysvinit not having such great debugging facilities
> like the journal :-)

Yes, the debugging is fine!  However, I don't think it happens with
sysvinit too.  It even worked with systemd for some time, however it
stopped out of a sudden and and I am not able to find a relation to
packages being installed/upgraded/removed at that time.  Perhaps some
race that is triggered only in some cases?

> Questions remains, what to do about this? I'd say it's a bug in
> acpi-support if it calls pm-powersave true, even though the system is
> not on battery.

As this machine has no battery at all, something in the detection of
system state (battery/AC-power) must definitely go wrong during boot.

> I'm inclined to close or re-assing this bug.
> Andreas, do you want to take this to the acpi-support maintainers?

Yes, I re-assigned to acpi-support, probably they know best how this
wrong detection of power state can be explained and hopefully be
fixed.

Best Regards,

     Andi