[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#700047: sysvinit: fails to create /etc/inittab from a fresh debootstrap

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:58:16PM -0500, David Comeau (SaturnNiGHTS) wrote:
> It appears that with the new package that has been pushed to
> sid/unstable [sysvinit 2.88dsf-40], performing a debootstrap install
> results in an installation with no /etc/inittab.  This appears to
> occur due to a section of sysvinit.postinst not running, due to
> being in a fakeroot/chroot/install environment, and having no init
> process to reinitialize.  That section of the postinst looks like it
> doesn't execute [do_restart()], which unfortunately also includes:
> 
> if [ ! -f /etc/inittab ]
> then
>     cp -p /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab
> fi

Awfully sorry that this has happened, this is certainly wrong.
I'll have a -41 upload done later this evening.


Regards,
Roger

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