** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-17.09
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716979
Title:
clean up unmodified /etc/rc.local on upgrade
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
If a user's system was installed before zesty, the initscripts package
was installed as part of the base system, and a stub /etc/rc.local was
created on install.
rc.local is very much a legacy interface (it was legacy under Debian's
sysvinit, so it's three generations of legacy); and if /etc/rc.local is present
and executable, systemd runs an additional unit, rc-local.service, which is
After=network-online.target (due to
/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf). This can unnecessarily
impact boot speed in the event that the network is not available at boot.
Since the initscripts package no longer exists in zesty and later, and
this package should preferably be removed on upgrade, we can't put
maintainer script code in this package to manage the removal of
/etc/rc.local.
Adding this to any other system package would be a kludge.
I think this belongs as a quirk on upgrade, to remove the
/etc/rc.local left behind by initscripts if it is unmodified.
Here is the md5sum of the stock file, which has remained consistent
from (at least) lucid through xenial:
$ md5sum /etc/rc.local
10fd9f051accb6fd1f753f2d48371890 /etc/rc.local
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