Bug#774902: systemd: On some systems fails to start old-style initscripts

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-8
Severity: important

I've had to (at least temporarily) switch to sysvinit because systemd fails
to start old-style initscripts on some of my systems.  I don't have the time
at present to debug mostly because with systemd I have no idea where to even
start troubleshooting and I need my systems to work *now* not three weeks or
three months from now. (These are systems I use for doing paid work, so there
is not option to leave them in a broken state to debug).

Regards,

Daniel 

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

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+b1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-4
ii  libc6           2.19-13
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-4
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-4+b1
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-8
ii  mount           2.25.2-4
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-58
ii  udev            215-8
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-4

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.12-3
ii  libpam-systemd  215-8

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

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