package: live-config version: 5.20190519 Hi,
the file /lib/live/config/0050-config contains a check for systemd which happens to be broken: It checks for the presence of systemd with an "if which systemctl ..." statement. if which systemctl >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then systemctl set-environment "LANG=${_LOCALE}" fi This does not take into account that there may be situations where systemctl is present, but systemd is not the currently running init system, like when live-build is called with "--initsystem sysvinit": Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-=============-============-================================= ii systemd 241-7~deb10u4 amd64 system and service manager ii sysvinit-core 2.93-8 amd64 System-V-like init utilities The faulty check causes 0050-locales, or rather, systemctl, to throw an error during startup when the package is installed, but e.g. sysvinit is the currently running init system. According to the systemd documentation, the proper way to check whether or not systemd is the currently running init system is to check for the presence of the directory /run/systemd/system. Thus, the check if which systemctl >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then should be changed to if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] ; then Kind Regards, Stefan Baur -- BAUR-ITCS UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Geschäftsführer: Stefan Baur Eichenäckerweg 10, 89081 Ulm | Registergericht Ulm, HRB 724364 Fon/Fax 0731 40 34 66-36/-35 | USt-IdNr.: DE268653243