Bug#922815: insserv FATAL while updating as mountkernfs has to be enabled to use service udev

[Michael Biebl]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:06:10 +0000 Dmitry Bogatov <KAction at debian.org>
wrote:
> 
> control: reassign -1 udev
> 
> [2019-02-27 08:00] shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>
> > > Seems there is no /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh on your system.
> > >
> > > Since your init system is systemd, I question, why do you need insserv
> > > in first place. Do you have bin:initscripts installed?
> > >
> > > My guess is that update-initramfs invokes insserv /if/ it is available,
> > > and since you have insserv installed, but no initscripts, we get this
> > > bug.
> > >
> > > Adding initramfs-tools maintainer into loop. If my guess is correct,
> > > this issue should be resolved on initramfs side, since making insserv
> > > depending on initscripts is not nice to user.
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> >
> > Dear Dimity,
> >
> > You are right on both counts. Indeed systemd is pid 0 on my system.
> >
> > In answer to your query, I attempted -
> >
> > $ aptitude why insserv
> > i   rcconf  Depends sysv-rc
> > i A sysv-rc Depends insserv (> 1.12.0-10)
> >
> > Does this answer the question?
> 
> Well, it does answer how to workaround problem -- either install
> initscripts or remove insserv. But in general, you are in your right
> to have this combination of packages on your system.
> 
> Since initramfs-maintainer says, that initramfs-tools do not invoke
> insserv, another guess is udev/init-system-helpers. Reassigning for
> udev.

Dmitry, since you reassigned this to udev without further explanation,
what would you suggest should the udev package do about this?


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