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

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:36:50PM -0600, Brian Paterni wrote:
> The new sysv packages in experimental look like they are breaking my system.

Sorry to hear that.  Knowing what went wrong here would help
correct it.  I'm running it without issues, but that's not
to say your system is not different in some way.

> 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...

When you upgraded the packages, did you install all of
sysvinit, sysvinit-utils, sysv-rc and initscripts, or
just a subset?

When it upgraded the conffiles in /etc, did it prompt whether
to keep your version or install the new maintainer version?

> 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.

When you downgraded, which package(s) did you downgrade?  As
above, did you do anything at any conffile prompts?

Both the /lib/init/rw change and the /etc/mtab change only
take proper effect after reboot, so I'm surprised that either
of these could cause problems shutting down.

When you rebooted, was /etc/mtab a file or a symlink; if it was a
symlink, what was it pointing to?


If you could, it would be great if you could upgrade to
the experimental versions and check these things.  It would also
be great if you could identify what's going wrong at startup,
and where.  Is this an issue with insserv affecting the script
ordering?  Does "insserv -v" report anything?


Regards,
Roger

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