[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#740459: Infinite loop reloading dbus service

[Erich Schubert]

Hello Petter,
I can install the 1.16.0-5 package without running into that infinite loop.

I'm really short on time today, so I couldn't check the bug tracker,
if this is already reported. There is another issue with insserv. I
couldn't upgrade initscripts to 2.88dsf-54, because of "insserv:
FATAL: service smbd is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service
samba".
This was caused by samba being uninstalled but not purged. Manually
removing /etc/init.d/samba* resolved this installation issue.

insserv should probably be more robust to old/leftover/broken init
scripts and not prevent the installation of unrelated packages.
Maybe this is what triggered the problem the first place, with the
previous version: having an old/outdated init script in /etc/init.d?

Regards,
Erich