[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#791917: Bug#791917: dbus: Missing dependency on mountpoint from util-linux package

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.07.2015 um 16:32 schrieb Jan Krotký:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.8.18-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> after updating, decided to restart system after 20 days uptime. During startup
> dbus failed to start as it is using mountpoint in starting script to determine
> if /proc/ exists. System comes to a KDE login screen without network, keyboard
> and mouse.
> 
> Unplugging and reconnecting keyboard makes it usable again. So I was able to
> switch to console as plasma ends in segfault and black screen.
> Running /etc/init.d/dbus start reveals the two line error:
> "mountpoint: not found" and an error that comes from that if statement in
> the script.
> Network could be restored with setting specific ip address:
> ifconfig eth0 up
> ifconfig eth0 SOME_VALID_LOCAL_IP_ADDRESS
> dhclient
> 
> Reinstalling package makes no difference
> apt-get install --reinstall dbus
> 
> After finding out in which package the mountpoint resides
> apt-get install util-linux

util-linux is an essential package. previously mountpoint was shipped by
initscripts, a quasi-essential package.
You can only remove them by force.
Packages can use tools from essential packages without having to depend
on it. So there is no bug here, but a simple user error. You shouldn't
have removed util-linux.




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