[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#763869: Bug#763869: sysvinit-utils: sulogin segfault after `cannot open password database!`

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2015, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > Not sure if it will make it into Jessie.  It do not seem important
> > enough to try to push it past the freeze.
> 
> Under certain circumstances it does not allow to get into the
> maintenance shell, which is a real problem for systems still using SysV
> instead of systemd I believe. systemd just tries to continue with
> booting where SysV just hangs, doesn’t it?

Yes.  The bug is important enough that a fix warrants a freeze exception
*request*, and if that doesn't get approved (because it reflects on the
installer), a stable update as soon as pratical.

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  Henrique Holschuh