Bug#761063: changes to /etc/inittab are not respected on upgrade from sysvinit

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no
Sat Oct 4 14:06:07 BST 2014


]] Marvin Renich 

> On a system with dbndns, daemontools, and daemontools-run installed,
> when upgrading from sysvinit to systemd, the changes to /etc/inittab are
> not respected, so dnscache and tinydns did not start.  In my case, this
> left an entire local network without dns service.

/etc/inittab is a sysvinit-only configuration file, so this is
expected.  Arguably, we should warn once if the inittab has been changed
from the shipped default. 

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