[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#637481: /init: /init: 318: cannot open /root/dev/console: No such file

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Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-13.11


Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's crucially
important sysvinit package.

You'll know better than I, but it seems to me that I may
have stumbled upon a bug in it.

I upgraded from version 2.86.ds1-60 to 2.88dsf-13.11 and booted,
and soon after the bootloader (grub) ran, I was greeted
with the following messages, which I dutifully copied by hand
for your edification and amusement. (Hopefully the web based
email editor that I'm using won't wrap them...)

/init: /init: 223: [: not found
/init: /init: 223: sh: not found
/init: /init: 223: [: not found
/init: /init: 223: [: not found
/init: /init: 224: [: not found
/init: /init: 239: [: not found
/init: /init: 239: [: not found
/init: /init: 239: [: not found
/init: /init: 239: [: not found
/init: /init: 239: umount: not found
/init: /init: 242: mount: not found
/init: /init: 243: mount: not found
/init: /init: 273: [: not found
/init: /init: 291: [: not found
/init: /init: 293: [: not found
/init: /init: 318: cannot open /root/dev/console: No such file
[    1.103189] Kernelpanic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[    1.103253] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1
[    1.103313] Call Trace:
[    1.103377]  [<c12ac14e>] ? panic+0x4d/0x141
[    1.103439]  [<c1038ed8>] ? do_exit+0x8f/0x633
[    1.103499]  [<c11bfa25>] ? tty_write+0x1db/0x1db
[    1.103559]  [<c1039671>] ? do_group_exit+0x11/0x14
[    1.103619]  [<c10396a5>] ? sys_exit_group+0x11/0x14
[    1.103682]  [<c12b221f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28

Others and I suspected that upgrading all packages to their
latest versions in the unstable distribution might solve the
problem, and I did a dist-upgrade.

Unfortunately, the problem persisted.

I can wait for maybe twenty four hours for your wise questions
and informed suggestions.

After that, I need to try to restore the system from a backup.

As you know, that'll make it harder to debug this.

Maybe the fastest way to coordinate would be through IRC on
freenode's #debian channel.

So, that's what I think I know about it.

Thanks again for your time and attention maintaining such
an important package,
Kingsley
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