Re: Bug#714710: dpkg: when installed from live usb/cd /sbin/start-stop-daemon is empty shell script

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 live-images

Hi!

[ I got confirmation off-list this is with official Live images, but
  feel free to re-reassign as I don't really know what the culprit is. ]

On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 08:29:19 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 02:33:36 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.15.8.13
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > When installed from live usb/cd /sbin/start-stop-daemon is empty shell script
> > This results in strange behaviour of start/stop services like nfs
> > 
> > I read a whole bunch of issues related to nfs (rpc.statd not running)
> > While having another machine with same setup and nfs working I excluded the possibility of being related to some mostly discussed bugs
> > I noticed that portmap and rpc.statd are simply not starting, because the start-stop-daemon program was an empty shells script
> > unfortunately the version reported here was overwritten by dpkg --reinstall install dpkg, but I hope in this way that other people having 
> > similar issues with daemons not starting properly will solve it easily.
> 
> This would be an issue with whatever Live USB/CD software you are using.
> If that's one of the packaged solutions in Debian, then we can reassign
> the bug report there, otherwise there's not much that can be done, except
> that you'd need to file such bug report on the project producing those
> Live images.

Thanks,
Guillem