[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#374668: [sysvinit] prevents bootstrapping a system

[James Westby]

Hi, I have managed to find a work around for this problem.

If something reads from the /dev/initctl inside the chroot while it is
stalled then the call to init completes, and the process can continue. 

I have attached a hex dump of the output of /dev/initctl when this has
done in case it helps. Not that only the 75 is the last thing printed,
the rest is just padding inserted by hexcat.

James


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00000000 - 69 19 09 03  01 00 00 00  75 00 00 00  05 00 00 00  i.......u.......
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