Re: Redis installation error(s) on Debian SID

[debian-user@howorth.org.uk]

"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> John Cassidy wrote:
> > > Could not execute systemctl:  at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line
> > > 148.  
> 
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > That's a very strange and specific error message.  Is your systemctl
> > command missing, or has incorrect permissions or something?  
> 
> I rather guess that it is due to the perl thingies
> 
>   @instance_args, $action, @start_unit
> 
> in
> 
>   system('systemctl', '--quiet', @instance_args, $action,
> @start_units) == 0 or die("Could not execute systemctl: $!");

But the error says that it could not execute systemctl, which suggests
to me some specific problem with that binary rather than a problem with
its args.

However it won't do any harm to print the args as you suggest. You
could use "warn" instead of "print STDERR".

> at
>   https://sources.debian.org/src/init-system-helpers/1.67/script/deb-systemd-invoke/#L148
> 
> One should make them visible and then re-try the Redis installation
> after possibly removing the debris of the nearly completed
> installation. We'd need a perl programmer to tell the exact command
> to insert before line 148 to make the systemctl command parameters
> visible before the execution attempt. Something like
>   print STDERR "systemctl --quiet, @instance_args, $action,
> @start_units\n";
> 
> 
> The problem seems not uncommon:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1010893
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076530
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
>