Bug#848504: usrmerge breaks various systemd symlinks

[Michael Biebl]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:46:03 +0100 Christian Hofstaedtler
<zeha at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-7
> 
> usrmerge reports that various symlinks installed by systemd are "broken"
> and cannot be properly converted:
> 
> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
> WARNING: /usr/lib/systemd/system/procps.service is a broken symlink and has been renamed!
> 
> ls -la (in /usr/lib/systemd/system/) after conversion:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Dec 17 18:35 dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Dec 17 18:35 dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Dec 17 18:35 dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Dec 17 18:35 procps.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/procps.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Dec 17 18:35 runlevel3.target -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 30 13:38 dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service.usrmerge-broken -> systemd-hostnamed.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 30 13:38 dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service.usrmerge-broken -> systemd-logind.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 30 13:38 dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service.usrmerge-broken -> systemd-timedated.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 30 13:38 procps.service.usrmerge-broken -> systemd-sysctl.service
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 30 13:38 runlevel3.target.usrmerge-broken -> multi-user.target
> 
> Can't really tell what the state before was, though.

Marco, can you comment please? To me this looks like working as designed.


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