Package: systemctl Version: 1.4.4181-1.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
systemctl-replacement fails to support the preset parameter, which is used by the deb-systemd-helper script when installing packages with systemd service files. If the systemctl package is installed before a package, which wants to install a systemd service file, enabling this service fails. If the systemctl package is not installed, deb-systemd-helper itself takes care of enabling the service file, if no systemd is installed on the system. With installed systemctl package: ================================================================ # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y ntp ... Setting up ntp (1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1) ... /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on ntp.service: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start. Setting up libgdbm-compat4:amd64 (1.19-2) ... Setting up libperl5.32:amd64 (5.32.1-4+deb11u2) ... Setting up perl (5.32.1-4+deb11u2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u3) ... # ls -l /etc/systemd/system/ default.target.wants/ timers.target.wants/ # ls -l /etc/systemd/system/*.wants /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jan 1 1970 e2scrub_reap.service -> /lib/systemd/system/e2scrub_reap.service /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jan 1 1970 apt-daily-upgrade.timer -> /lib/systemd/system/apt-daily-upgrade.timer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jan 1 1970 apt-daily.timer -> /lib/systemd/system/apt-daily.timer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jan 1 1970 e2scrub_all.timer -> /lib/systemd/system/e2scrub_all.timer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jan 1 1970 fstrim.timer -> /lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer # ls -l /lib/systemd/system/ntp.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 354 Sep 23 2020 /lib/systemd/system/ntp.service ================================================================ Notice, that the error message "No such file or directory" is misleading and wrong, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009963. Calling systemctl manually with the parameter set by deb-systemd-helper fails too, 1 is returned as result and no links to the service files are setup. ================================================================ # systemctl --system --preset-mode=enable-only preset ntp.service # echo $? 1 ================================================================ Thanks, Sascha -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-107-generic (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages systemctl depends on: ii python3 3.9.2-3 Versions of packages systemctl recommends: ii procps 2:3.3.17-5 Versions of packages systemctl suggests: pn tini | dumb-init <none> -- no debconf information
