[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#672838: sysv-rc: invoke-rc.d postfix start fails to start

[Neil Watson]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Expected results
invoke-rc.d postfix start
Should start the postfix service.

Actual results.
The command returns zero but does not start postfix.

ettin:~# ps -ef|grep postfix
root     17238 16921  0 20:17 pts/2    00:00:00 grep postfix
ettin:~# invoke-rc.d postfix start
ettin:~# echo $?
0
ettin:~# !ps
ps -ef|grep postfix
root     17263 16921  0 20:17 pts/2    00:00:00 grep postfix
ettin:~# invoke-rc.d postfix restart
ettin:~# echo $?
0
ettin:~# ps -ef|grep postfix
root     17281 16921  0 20:18 pts/2    00:00:00 grep postfix

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.42
ii  insserv                1.14.0-3
ii  sysvinit-utils         2.88dsf-22.1

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian2

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum           <none>
pn  sysv-rc-conf  <none>

-- debconf information:
* sysv-rc/unable-to-convert:
* sysv-rc/convert-legacy: true