[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#784238: systemd: emergency.service restart leads to unusable system

[Michael Biebl]

clone: 784238 -1 -2
reassign: -1 util-linux
reassign: -2 sysvinit-utils
retitle: -1 Please ship sulogin, last(b), mesg
retitle: -2 Please let util-linux provide sulogin, last(b), mesg
thanks

Am 06.05.2015 um 12:53 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 04.05.2015 um 13:15 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz:
>> Even worse, pressing enter shows the prompt from the former shell and
>> I'm able to get 'bash ... command not found errors'
> 
> This looks like a bug in /sbin/sulogin, which does not properly cleanup
> it's children, when being killed.
> Our /sbin/sulogin implementation comes from sysvinit-utils while
> apparently most other distros use /sbin/sulogin from util-linux nowadays.

I tested with sulogin from util-linux and can confirm that this
particular bug doesn't happen with that implementation.

Since util-linux is properly maintained upstream we should consider
shipping that implementation. This also get's us closer to what other
distros use and allows us to eventually get rid of sysvinit-utils and
src:sysvinit.

I also think we should move the following tools (along with their man
pages) to util-linux while at it:

/usr/bin/lastb
/usr/bin/last
/usr/bin/mesg
/sbin/sulogin

This needs coordination between sysvinit-utils and util-linux, so
cloning and re-assigning the bug accordingly.

Michael

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