[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#671124: initscripts: Fails to update due to mountoverflowtmp

[Roger Leigh]

severity 671124 important
tags 671124 + moreinfo
thanks

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:49:06PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:15:42AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Preparing to replace initscripts 2.88dsf-22 (using .../initscripts_2.88dsf-22.1_amd64.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement initscripts ...
> > Processing triggers for man-db ...
> > Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-22.1) ...
> > update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp
> > dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> This is quite odd, because there were no changes to mountoverflowtmp
> between 2.88dsf-22 and 2.88dsf-22.1.  It was an NMU of debconf
> template translations only, and there were no changes to
> mountoverflowtmp for a long time (years) prior to this.
>[...] 
> I've not received any other reports of this problem to date, and
> I can't yet reproduce the problem on my own systems--I never had
> any problem with the 22.1 upgrade, and the -23 and -24 upgrades
> from experimental have never caused any upgrade problems on my
> test systems either.

Hi,

I have not had any other reports of this, and I can't reproduce it
myself.  As I stated above, this file and maintainer scripts
pertaining to it were not changed for several years, so in the
absence of further information or being able to reproduce, I can't
really do much more with this at the present.  I'm downgrading the
severity for the time being--if this is a reproducible bug, it's
already in stable and testing.


Regards,
Roger

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