Bug#771172: systemd-sysv-generator does not generate

[Salvo Tomaselli]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-6
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,
I am not providing the additional information that reportbug wants to provide
because if I do, the mail will be rejected as spam by bogus filters.

Dear Maintainer,

somehow, after the last upgrade (which included dbus, console-setup,
libpolkit-backend, schroot) I was unable to start postfix.

While upgrading I had this message:
> insserv: FATAL: service dnsmasq is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service postfix

that caused the entire upgrade to fail.

I didn't know what was the problem, the LSB headers seemed fine, so I removed
/etc/init.d/postfix and /etc/init.d/dnsmasq and proceeded with the upgrade.

After the upgrade I put the scripts in their original position.


Then, I noticed that postfix was not running and could not be started

> ● postfix.service
>   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
>      Active: inactive (dead)

which is when I learnt about the existance of systemd-sysv-generator (which
lacks a man page and doesn't support a -h switch)

After some investigation I found out that these generated files belong in
/run/systemd/generator.late/, for systemd to be able to run the service.

There was no such file there for postfix, so I ran the tool, which generated
files in /tmp, and then moved the postfix.service inside the correct location,
to be able to start it.

I have no clue of what happened with insserv and why it was failing in the first
place, and I guess that systemd refusing to start my service was due to my
removing and then adding the script.

However, I might want to copy a script in /etc/init.d at anytime and I would
expect systemd to be able to run it, without first having to run some
undocumented tool.

Please let me know if you need more information about the problem.

Best



-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.17.2d (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-58
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-3
ii  libc6           2.19-13
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-3
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-4
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-6
ii  mount           2.25.2-3
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-58
ii  udev            215-6
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-3

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.12-1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-6

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information