[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

[Roger Leigh]

reassign 594917 insserv
retitle 594917 insserv: Issues with virtual facilities and non-symlinked initscripts
thanks 

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:41:32PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Roger Leigh 
> 
> > Could you provide examples please?  If there are init scripts which
> > it can't handle, that's a bug.  Either in insserv or (more likely)
> > the scripts.
> 
> It fails to handle the case where something provides a virtual facility,
> at least.  It also seems to think that /etc/init.d/../rc2.d/S30gdm3 on
> my system is «corrupt or invalid», without further information.  (It's
> for some reason a normal file rather than a symlink, but I don't see why
> that should matter.)

I'm not sure myself.  Probably because it's potentially dangerous
since it would want to replace it with a symlink, and that might
result in dataloss.  Do you have an example of the virtual
facility problem?

Both of these are insserv bugs rather than sysv-rc bugs, BTW, so
reassigning.

> What I'm complaining about is it's continued insistence on trying to
> convert to another way of ordering the links when it's unable to do so,
> especially when said complaining is in the form of a debconf error on
> each and every upgrade of the package.

Have you observed this on more than one system?  I've not seen
either of these problems myself, and I've not seen any bugs
filed recently about either issue.  There was also a recent
insserv update, BTW.  Are both problems still reproducible
with the current unstable insserv?


Regards,
Roger

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