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

[Roger Leigh]

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.

In experimental in 2.88dsf-23, we did remove the mountoverflowtmp
script.  Is it a possibility that you installed -23 and downgraded
to -22?  It's a vague possibility that dpkg failed to reinstall
the conffile, and this resulted in update-rc.d failing due to the
script not being present.

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.


Regards,
Roger

-- 
  .''`.  Roger Leigh
 : :' :  Debian GNU/Linux    http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/
 `. `'   schroot and sbuild  http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools
   `-    GPG Public Key      F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800