[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#585493: Fails to upgrade, insserv bails due to loop

[Michael Biebl]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-8
Severity: serious

The package fails to upgrade. Note, that I use gdm3:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-8) ...
insserv: There is a loop at service bootlogs if started
insserv: There is a loop between service gdm3 and mountnfs if started
insserv:  loop involving service mountnfs at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service networking at depth 5
insserv: There is a loop between service gdm3 and mountall-bootclean if
started
insserv:  loop involving service mountall-bootclean at depth 5
insserv:  loop involving service mountall at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service bootlogs and cryptdisks if
started
insserv:  loop involving service cryptdisks at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service udev at depth 1
insserv:  loop involving service urandom at depth 10
insserv:  loop involving service mountoverflowtmp at depth 7
insserv:  loop involving service checkfs at depth 4
insserv:  loop involving service checkroot at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service cryptdisks-early at depth 3
insserv: There is a loop between service bootlogs and checkroot if
started
insserv: There is a loop at service gdm3 if started
insserv: There is a loop between service gdm3 and mountoverflowtmp if
started
insserv:  loop involving service bootlogs at depth 4
insserv:  loop involving service gdm3 at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service network-manager at depth 2
insserv: There is a loop between service gdm3 and ifupdown-clean if
started
insserv:  loop involving service ifupdown-clean at depth 1
insserv:  loop involving service keyboard-setup at depth 2
insserv: There is a loop between service gdm3 and mountall if started
insserv:  loop involving service hdparm at depth 4
insserv:  loop involving service hostname at depth 5
insserv: There is a loop between service bootlogs and mountdevsubfs if
started
insserv:  loop involving service mountdevsubfs at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service mountnfs-bootclean at depth 11
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
 status 1
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  initscripts
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   3.2.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.11.1-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                         2.17.2-3   Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                       2.88dsf-8  System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.88dsf-8  System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-2  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.11-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/init.d/halt changed [not included]
/etc/init.d/reboot changed [not included]

-- no debconf information