Bug#517795: glibc wants to restart xscreensaver, which has no init script
Steve Langasek a écrit :
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:36:26PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Package: libc6
>> Version: 2.9-3
>> Severity: normal
>
>> After acknowledging the latest glibc upgrade, libc6 spits out a warning
>> message:
>
>> Preparing to replace libc6 2.7-18 (using .../g/glibc/libc6_2.9-3_i386.deb) ...
>> Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
>> Checking init scripts...
>> WARNING: init script for xscreensaver not found.
>> Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
>
> The entertaining flip-side to this bug is that receipt of my own bug report
> mail was delayed for 5 hours, because after upgrading glibc, postfix smtpd
> started segfaulting.
>
> Mar 2 00:05:00 minbar kernel: [31907.000813] smtpd[22263]: segfault at d89c0 ip 000d89c0 sp bfa26100 error 4 in libcrypt-2.9.so[b7801000+9000]
>
> Restarting postfix with the init script was enough to resolve this.
>
> So I wonder if the libc6.preinst has been pruned too aggressively...
Yeah, version 2.9-3 is buggy, the version triggering the restart of
services has only been bumped in the preinst, not the postinst.
This should be fixed in version 2.9-4.
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