Bug#571056: chroot_upstart: divert initctl (like policy-rc.d) to fix start(8) in Ubuntu Lucid postinsts.
Package: live-helper
Version: 2.0~a7-1
Severity: normal
See also http://bugs.debian.org/571054 (same issue, in pbuilder).
In chroot_sysv-rc, live-helper currently creates a policy-rc.d that
prevents daemons from starting when they are installed. This works
well for sysvinit packages.
However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons use
upstart instead of sysvinit. Thus, they ignore policy-rc.d, try (and
fail) to start, further causing dpkg and thus "lh build" to fail.
According to CJ Watson of #ubuntu-devel, this can be done by diverting
/sbin/initctl and substituting a stub. An example of this can be seen
in debootstrap's "gutsy" script (excerpt below). Please add something
similar, I guess to /usr/share/live-helper/helpers/chroot_upstart.
mv "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon" "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL"
echo \
"#!/bin/sh
echo
echo \"Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing\"" > "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon"
chmod 755 "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon"
if [ -x "$TARGET/sbin/initctl" ]; then
mv "$TARGET/sbin/initctl" "$TARGET/sbin/initctl.REAL"
echo \
"#!/bin/sh
echo
echo \"Warning: Fake initctl called, doing nothing\"" > "$TARGET/sbin/initctl"
chmod 755 "$TARGET/sbin/initctl"
fi
[0] In theory this was an issue with earlier Ubuntu releases, but it
seems to be far more prevalent in Lucid.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages live-helper depends on:
ii cdebootstrap 0.5.5 Bootstrap a Debian system
ii debootstrap 1.0.20 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
Versions of packages live-helper recommends:
ii gettext-base 0.17-9 GNU Internationalization utilities
Versions of packages live-helper suggests:
ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking
ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment
ii genext2fs 1.4.1-2.2 ext2 filesystem generator for embe
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.10-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii memtest86+ 4.00-2.2 thorough real-mode memory tester
ii mtd-utils [mtd-to 20090606-1 Memory Technology Device Utilities
ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
ii parted 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partition resi
ii squashfs-tools 1:4.0-6 Tool to create and append to squas
ii sudo 1.7.2p1-1 Provide limited super user privile
ii syslinux 2:3.83+dfsg-3 utilities for the syslinux bootloa
ii uuid-runtime 2.16.2-0 runtime components for the Univers
pn win32-loader <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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