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

[Cyril Brulebois]

severity 671124 serious
tag 671124 - moreinfo
thanks

Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> (05/06/2012):
> 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.

That's trivially reproducible.

Install squeeze, rm /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp, replace squeeze with
wheezy in sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get dist-ugprade.

Hint: the postinst's being set -e, and your calling update-rc.d
unconditionally on scripts that can go away (they're conffiles) is
probably a bad idea.

This problem probably affects more or less all other scripts, even if I
haven't had reasons to kill those and notice that. (And no, I won't
check myself, I think I've done my part of reproducibility checks
already.)

Mraw,
KiBi.
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