On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:20:57AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > after a dist-upgrade, my sid system wouldn’t boot at all any more: no > network (because udev didn’t rename eth1 to eth0), read-only filesystem, > I was dumped into a root shell after being asked for the root password, > but by then the filesystem was read-write. > > I was running file-rc and decided to revert to sysv-rc. Bad idea, now > I had /etc/rc2.d/S01sendsigs and /etc/rc2.d/S24single – you can imagine > this was not any better. I blame 3dab3d4d3e911c779a3d6c998b20609053dd5b88 > in collab-maint/sysvinit for this.
> Now, question to both sysvinit/sysv-rc and upstart people: > how do I “un-hose” this system? I need this for $dayjob, and > I can’t even run Kontact because Akonadi won’t start (and I > need the PIM functionality from it). Did you try running insserv by hand to restore the links? Did the maintainer scripts restore any of the links for you? > And: why did this happen in the first place? If you're referring to the commit above, it's because we've fully transitioned to dependency-based boot for wheezy, so the hardcoded runlevel ordering isn't used any more (at all), even for file-rc. Note that file-rc was also updated to use insserv, so it too was also using dynamic ordering. So the above removal should have had zero effect upon use of either system--both systems were already using the "defaults" option implicitly. The real problem here is probably that the maintainer scripts for handling the transition between the file-rc and sysv-rc systems may not be doing their job robustly. It should be possible for it to transition seamlessly between the two since they are just describing the same stuff in a different way. This is probably a bug in the file-rc prerm/postrm and/or the sysv-rc preinst/postinst. IIRC file-rc should restore the sysv-rc links and sysv-rc should make sure insserv is run again. If any file-rc users could investigate this in more detail, that would be much appreciated. I thought this was all working for wheezy from my own testing of it in VMs, but I'm not a file-rc user, and there may be cases where the configuration isn't being migrated. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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