Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.89 Tags: patch Dear maintainer,
After upgrading to Stretch, I noticed that the init scripts would no longer produce any output on the system console during boot. Note I use a kernel with the needed drivers linked statically lest I need to use an initramfs so this issue may not apply with an initramfs; also, I use sysvinit instead of systemd. After investigating, I found the cause of the problem to be that the special file `/dev/console' was not present in the file system; this would not be a problem normally since, when devtmpfs gets mounted, `/dev/console' will be created, but I suppose that takes place after the kernel starts init (probably in an init script). The relation this issue has to debootstrap is that version 1.0.67 of debootsrap (from Jessie) created the files in `/dev' by unpacking the archive at `/usr/share/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz'; from what I gather, it DID include `/dev/console'. Now, in the version 1.0.89, this was changed to calls to mknod in `/usr/share/debootstrap/functions' and `/dev/console' is NOT created. Perhaps no longer creating it was intentional as it is not needed with systemd (I think), but I guess you may agree that this is not the desired behaviour since sysvinit is officially supported. The change required in the file `functions' is minute and I included the patch; I have NOT tested it though, sorry! P.S. Slightly unrelated but, in the line I added in the patch, I did not quote the path with the variable expansion for consistency with the code around it since the paths are not quoted in the rest of that function; they should be though! Yours faithfully, B.R.S.R.
1179a1180 > mknod -m 600 $TARGET/dev/console c 5 1
