Bug#509612: buildd.emdebian.org: [grip] sysvinit fails to configure with /dev/initctl problem

[Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>]

Package: buildd.emdebian.org
Severity: important

With the updated Grip repository, debootstrap almost works - except two
separate user tests have come up with the same error, but only the first
time that debootstrap is called:

# /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysvinit.postinst configure
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

So far, only found:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/initrd-pivotroot-and-initctl-woes...-39056/#post200086

Any ideas?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash