Hi thanks Edwin for reporting the details on your side. This is exactly what I have experienced in my case and spent about 4-5h looking for an issue with nfs and why it is not mounting remote dir, why portmap was not running etc. I did check the current 7.x installer debian-7.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso but it looks ok there in the dpkg package. In debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso there is no dpkg package. I need to check the backup disks and usb of installation and the notes to find out what I have used for setting up the machine but no time left unfortunately. I think the machine was installed in Feb or Jan this year.
@Edwin: Can you check if the included dpkg package has this inside /sbin/start-stop-daemon in binary, basically I'm wondering if there is a script somewhere which overwrites something in /sbin, which would be dangerous I mount -o loop debian....iso and then find | grep dpkg followed by mkdir tmp && dpkg -x dpkg...deb tmp regards ________________________________ From: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> To: deloptes <delop...@yahoo.com>; 714...@bugs.debian.org Cc: live-ima...@packages.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Bug#714710: dpkg: when installed from live usb/cd /sbin/start-stop-daemon is empty shell script Control: reassign -1 live-images Hi! [ I got confirmation off-list this is with official Live images, but feel free to re-reassign as I don't really know what the culprit is. ] On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 08:29:19 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 02:33:36 +0200, deloptes wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.15.8.13 > > Severity: important > > > > When installed from live usb/cd /sbin/start-stop-daemon is empty shell > > script > > This results in strange behaviour of start/stop services like nfs > > > > I read a whole bunch of issues related to nfs (rpc.statd not running) > > While having another machine with same setup and nfs working I excluded the > > possibility of being related to some mostly discussed bugs > > I noticed that portmap and rpc.statd are simply not starting, because the > > start-stop-daemon program was an empty shells script > > unfortunately the version reported here was overwritten by dpkg --reinstall > > install dpkg, but I hope in this way that other people having > > similar issues with daemons not starting properly will solve it easily. > > This would be an issue with whatever Live USB/CD software you are using. > If that's one of the packaged solutions in Debian, then we can reassign > the bug report there, otherwise there's not much that can be done, except > that you'd need to file such bug report on the project producing those > Live images. Thanks, Guillem
