This issue was solved last year too, when debootstrap failed the same way. See <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/546834 > for the discussion and a patch to solve it. Note that there are two ways to solve it, either by adding initscripts as a package dependency or by making the init.d script dependency on checkroot soft. I do not know which of these make most sense, but know that the package dependency on initscripts was used last year.
Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org