[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#652097: sysvinit: breaks system on reboot

[Brian Paterni]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-14
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Dear Maintainer,

The new sysv packages in experimental look like they are breaking my system.

reboot via # shutdown -r now, or # shutdown -h now, do not work, and the only
way to reboot my machine is with magic-sysrq-b or hard reset.

When the machine comes up again, login is displayed way too early (~3 seconds
after grub), and once I login, the system seems to be severly broken... nothing
besides root is mounted, hostname is not displayed, network has not been
brought up, etc...

If anyone else is hit with this, and you don't have sysv packages from unstable
already in your cache for downgrading, the only way I've found is to chroot
into your system via a livecd and downgrade that way to get your machine fully
functional again.


*note: System information was obtained with sysv packages at version
2.88dsf-13.13

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-13.13
ii  libc6           2.13-22
ii  libselinux1     2.1.0-4
ii  libsepol1       2.1.0-1.1
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-13.13
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-13.13

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information