Bug#714710: dpkg: when installed from live usb/cd /sbin/start-stop-daemon is empty shell script

[Edwin Fukunaga <efukunag@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm having a similar issue with a Live netboot archive.  I'm using the Live 6.0.7 gnome-desktop netboot archive, from

     http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/6.0.7/i386/net/debian-live-6.0.7-i386-gnome-desktop-net.tar.gz

and /sbin/start-stop-daemon is also an empty shell script:

---8<---

#!/bin/sh

exit 0
---8<---

There is also /sbin/start-stop-daemon.orig, with the same contents.

Scripts like /etc/init.d/rsyslog have strange behavior:

     $ sudo /etc/init.d/rsyslog start

     Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.

     $ /etc/init.d/rsyslog status

     could not access PID file for rsyslogd ... failed!

though starting rsyslogd manually works:

     $ sudo /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c4

     $ /etc/init.d/rsyslog status

     rsyslogd is running.

I'm running from RAM, booted over PXE, haven't installed to a hard disk.  The dpkg version is 1.15.8.13 (i386).

Just in case this is a related issue.  Thanks!

Edwin