Re: Why is help so hard to find?
On Fri January 14 2011 16:07:58 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
> > I've yet to find a single system which upgraded to insserv cleanly.
> > This is mostly due to removed packages which need fully purging to
> > remove the last traces of old init scripts which break the process.
>
> Huh. Every system I've upgraded had no problems. What is the failure
> mode? What happens on those systems?
FWIW, roughly one third of our test systems "failed to upgrade" for this
reason. It's not really a failure. sysv-rc.postinst simply says
Tests have determined that problems in the boot system exist which
prevent migration to dependency-based boot sequencing:
.
${PROBLEMATIC}
.
If the reported problem is a local modification, it needs to be fixed
manually. If it's a bug in the package, it should be reported to the
BTS and fixed in the package. See
http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot for more
information about how to fix the problems preventing migration.
.
To reattempt the migration process after the problems have been
fixed, run "dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc".
We regard those systems as the lucky ones as they kept the reliable
legacy boot mechanism.
--Mike Bird
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