Bug#774625: Disabled services in sysvinit are started/reenabled during transition to systemd

[Michael Biebl]

control: reassign -1 dh-systemd

Am 05.01.2015 um 14:52 schrieb Wolodja Wentland:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-8
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> services that have explicitly been disabled in sysvinit with "update-rc.d
> disable $SERVICE" are enabled/started in systemd after the transition. This
> requires users to keep track of the service status before the upgrade/transition
> and might cause serious problems if service that weren't supposed to run are
> started unintentionally.

This needs a clarification: if a package ships only a SysV init script,
the enabled/disabled state is respected by systemd.

I think what Wolodja wanted to say is, that if a package starts shipping
a native systemd service file (alongside the SysV init script), the
state of this systemd service is not based on the state of the SysV init
script, but rather whatever the package default is.

> If this cannot be solved technically then it would probably make sense to
> reassign this bug to release-notes and warn users about this behaviour so that
> they can take appropriate actions. It would, in that case, still be unclear how
> users could prevent services from being started though.

I don't think there is anything that can be done in systemd about this.
This would have to be dealt with in the maintainer scripts of the
individual packages. dh-systemd *might* help with this, but since we are
lacking basic functionality like [1], it seems unlikely that we find a
clean and automated solution for this.

Michael

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705254

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