Bug#1002641: os-prober: does nothing without "systemd-journald" running (syslog is: /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE)
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.79
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: tom.dbr@quantentunnel.de
Dear Maintainer,
I tried to use a text-based syslog (rsyslogd) exclusivly.
The start-script for journald was "masked" in systemd speak.
Can not remember os-prober's exact error message (somewhat missing "/dev/log").
Result was: only the installed debian appeared in grub's menue
(it's my productive system; there are Arch, Gentoo and fmw for playing around).
With journald unmasked again, os-prober is working too.
If you do not want to call it a bug, it is an unnecessary dependency on sytemd.
Anyway, thanks for your effort.
Regards,
Thomas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (100, 'bullseye-fasttrack'), (100, 'bullseye-backports-staging')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii grub-common 2.04-20
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2
ii mount 2.36.1-8
os-prober recommends no packages.
os-prober suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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