[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#351871: sysvinit: installs incorrect default /etc/inittab for S/390

[Frans Pop]

Package: sysvinit
Severity: serious
Version: 2.86.ds1-11
Tags: d-i, patch

S/390 has for a long time not been installable due to an issue with parted 
support, so I guess that's why nobody noticed this before.
After installing a new system, the system fails to boot correctly. After 
cron is started, messages appear:
 INIT: Id "[1-6]" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Reason is that a "regular" inittab is installed instead of the special 
S/390 one for dumb terminal.

The problem has probably been there since:
sysvinit (2.83-2) unstable; urgency=high
  * Install inittab.$(arch) as default inittab in the installation
    process, if it exists. Add inittab.s390 (closes: #113495)

In the source we have:
debian/share/inittab.s390-linux

However:
$ dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE
s390-linux-gnu

So, please rename inittab.s390-linux to inittab.s390-linux-gnu.
This should solve the problem.

A prompt upload with high urgency would be very much appreciated as we're 
currently preparing the Etch Beta2 release of Debian Installer and this 
is the only issue keeping S/390 from being supported again in this 
release.

Cheers,
Frans Pop
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