[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#638341: initscripts: Boot fails: Permission denied (Read-only file system)

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:04:12AM -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> Package: initscripts
> Version: 2.88dsf-13.11

> The initscripts package normally does a fine job
> of orchestrating many diverse and important
> resources.
> 
> The main reason I'm writing is that after
> upgrading and re-booting, many, many errors
> appeared on the system console, including
> 
>     Permission denied
>     Read-only file system
>     unable to open pidfile
> If I recall correctly, I also saw errors something like
>     hostname: Unknown host (none)
> 
> As you might imagine, the computer made Charlie
> Sheen look stable.
> 
> I rebooted the computer with a live CD, either
> Puppy Linux or System Rescue CD, chrooted to the
> hard drive, and saw that several init scripts lacked
> permission to be executed.

> How the scripts lost execute permission is a
> mystery.

Checking the actual .deb files, the init scripts in question
are all installed with executable permissions.  This doesn't
look like a defect in the initscripts package itself.  (If this
was the case, there would also have been rather more bug reports.)

Have you been able to identify the cause of the problem in the
interim?  Without some further detail, it's rather difficult to
reproduce, and I would tend to think that it was due to something
happening on your system rather than a bug in initscripts.


Regards,
Roger

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