Hi
thanks Edwin for reporting the details on your side.
This is exactly what I have experienced in my case and spent about 4-5h looking for an issue with nfs and why it is not mounting remote dir, why portmap was not running etc.
I did check the current 7.x installer debian-7.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso but it looks ok
there in the dpkg package.
In debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso there is no dpkg package.
I need to check the backup disks and usb of installation and the notes to find out what I have used for setting up the machine but no time left unfortunately. I think the machine was installed in Feb or Jan this year.
@Edwin: Can you check if the included dpkg package has this inside /sbin/start-stop-daemon in binary, basically I'm wondering if there is a script somewhere which overwrites something in /sbin, which would be dangerous
I mount -o loop debian....iso and then find | grep dpkg followed by mkdir tmp && dpkg -x dpkg...deb tmp
regards
From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
To: deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com>; 714710@bugs.debian.org
Cc: live-images@packages.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#714710: dpkg: when installed from live usb/cd
/sbin/start-stop-daemon is empty shell script
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