[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#390339: upgrade of initscripts fails when no tmpfs is mounted (sid)

[Ingo Juergensmann]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-28
Severity: normal


Apparently initscripts assumes the existance of tmpfs:

Preparing to replace initscripts 2.86.ds1-20 (using
.../initscripts_2.86.ds1-28_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement initscripts ...
Setting up initscripts (2.86.ds1-28) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/bootclean ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/bootlogd ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd-single ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/halt ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/hostname.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/killprocs ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mountall.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mtab.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/rc.local ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/reboot ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/sendsigs ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/umountfs ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/umountroot ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/urandom ...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on tmpfs,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 32
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initscripts

Regards, 
Ingo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.3
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.17.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.39-1      ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-17      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.12r-11    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-28 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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