[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#550229: sysv-rc: dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc finds nonexistent problems

[Francesco Potortì]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.87dsf-6
Severity: normal

I get errors while migrating to dependency based boot system:

|# dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
|debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
|debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
|debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
|info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.
|Configuring sysv-rc
|-------------------
|
|Unable to migrate to dependency based boot system
|
|Tests have determined that problems in the boot system exist which prevent migration to dependency based boot 
|sequencing. It is recommended to migrate for the following reasons:
|
| * the order of boot and shutdown is calculated dynamically, using
|   dependency information declared within each init.d script, which
|   ensures optimum and correct boot sequence for the set of installed
|   packages
| * protection against problems introduced by new or upgraded packages
|   by preserving the boot sequence when problems are detected; the boot
|   sequence is only modified if it is safe to do so
|
|
|If the reported problem is a local modification it needs to be fixed manually.  If it's a bug in the package 
|it should be reported to the BTS and fixed in the package. See 
|http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot for more information about how to fix the problems 
|preventing migration. To reattempt the migration process after the problems have been fixed, run 
|'dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc'.
|
|The following problems were detected: package bittorrent left obsolete init.d script behind, package timidity 
|left obsolete init.d script behind
|
|error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing.
|error: Problems detected: package bittorrent left obsolete init.d script behind, package timidity left obsolete init.d script behind

However, it appears that neither bittorrent nor timidity have in fact problems:

|# dpkg -S /etc/init.d/timidity
|timidity: /etc/init.d/timidity
|# dpkg -S /etc/init.d/bittorrent 
|bittorrent: /etc/init.d/bittorrent

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  insserv                       1.12.0-13  Tool to organize boot sequence usi
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.87dsf-6  System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  sysv-rc-conf                  <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* sysv-rc/unable-to-convert:
  sysv-rc/convert-legacy: true