[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#496960: policy-rc.d ignored in chroot

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.86.ds1-61

Scenario: I want to update Debian within a chroot environment.
To make sure that no runlevel scripts are started I install a
policy-rc.d file in /usr/sbin saying

	#!/bin/sh
	exit 101

Problem: During the update I get several warnings saying

invoke-rc.d: ----------------------------------------------------
invoke-rc.d: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence
invoke-rc.d: enabling safe mode: initscript policy layer disabled
invoke-rc.d: ----------------------------------------------------

(e.g. for cron).

Of course there is no shutdown sequence going on. /var/run/utmp
and others (maybe some forgoten *.pid files, or whatever) in the
chroot are in an undefined state, so the init scripts should not
be run. Thats the reason _why_ I have put policy-rc.d into place.
And surely I do not want another cron daemon running in a foreign
environment keeping the chroot busy.

I think that policy-rc.d should get a higher priority here.


Regards

Harri