Bug#472846: closed by Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> (Re: Bug#472846: busybox: Regression in pidof: no longer lists 'debian-installer' processes)

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> Can you please check if this is fixed for d-i with the current stable
> branch:
> $ svn co svn://svn.busybox.net/branches/busybox_1_11_stable

I'm afraid it is not fixed in the SVN version either.

The reason may be that the debian-installer script gets run as follows 
from /etc/inittab:
::respawn:/bin/cttyhack /sbin/debian-installer

In older versions of busybox 'pidof debian-installer' _did_ return its pid 
when started in basically the same way (also under respawn in inittab), 
but we did not (need to) use cttyhack then.

Removing cttyhack does _not_ fix the issue. I tried that (by editing
/etc/inittab before init is executed) but also with just
::respawn:/sbin/debian-installer
the pid for the debian-installer script is not displayed.

Cheers,
FJP