irqbalance: endless loop during configure, system reaches maximum of open files

[Axel Beckert]

Control: notfound -1 1.5.0-2

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> In /usr/sbin/update-rc.d:139 ff. $SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_SYSV is only used if
> /bin/systemctl exists. /bin/systemctl shouldn't exist on that system,
> but to my surprise, it does and it's rather old:
> 
> # ls -l /bin/systemctl
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 366476 May 26  2015 /bin/systemctl

I found even more remainders of a previously installed systemd on that
particular Raspberry Pi:

[ctimes]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      71 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.triggers
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1662 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3615 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.preinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    7235 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   30302 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     512 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.conffiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     478 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd-sysv.md5sums
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     530 Jul  5  2015 /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd-sysv.list
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd -> /lib/systemd/systemd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30340 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-ask-password
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   22140 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-escape
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   63228 Jan 13 16:46 /bin/systemd-hwdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  157416 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-inhibit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   22132 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-machine-id-setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   22128 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-notify
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   59000 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-tmpfiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   38524 Jul  5  2015 /bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

> So this is either a bug back from the time where I migrated that box
> from systemd to sysvinit or the initial Raspberry Pi SD card image
> used for that installation was already unclear with regards to that
> program.

Despite I can't remember any crash of that system during a package
upgrade, 3.5 years are a long time and it looks to me as if maybe an
fsck restored some already deleted files after a crash directly after
switching to sysvinit while /var/lib/dpkg/status stayed intact.

Definitely an issue of that specific system, and not of the package,
hence closing. Sorry for the noise.

Will try to clean this up by installing systemd and purging it again.

Felipe: Thanks again for giving the right hint to discover that! I'm
actually surprised that the system ran for 3.5 years with Sid and
nearly daily dist-upgrades without any obvious issues. In some way 

		Regards, Axel
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