[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#911176: Bug#911176: upgrade loops indefinitely

[Ian Jackson]

Petter Reinholdtsen writes ("Bug#911176: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#911176: upgrade loops indefinitely"):
> 
> Note, it is unlikely the problem is in initscripts.  It is more likely
> to be an incorrect dependency in one of the other init.d scripts
> involved.  When it is known which, I recommend to reassign this bug to
> the correct package.

Even so, surely insserv shouldn't just spin.  It should break the
cycle (perhaps badly) and be able to carry on.

I've asked rjk on irc for a copy of the /etc/init.d, but:

> I further recommend to have a look at the output from
> /usr/share/insserv/check-initd-order, and to wrap up the output from
> /usr/share/insserv/make-testsuite as an attachment to this bug to allow
> anyone to try to reproduce the problem.

Cool, I didn't know about that.  Much better.

Ian.

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