Package: udev Version: 0.141-1 Severity: serious This was first discovered on Lenny, and I urge you to apply a fix to the Lenny packages as well.
Debian Policy 10.4 mandates that #!/bin/sh scripts only use POSIX (SUSv3) commands plus a number of listed extensions. Implementations of it are (at least) bash, dash, mksh, posh, maybe ksh93 and/or zsh. However, almost all of these shells implement more than the minimum required for a /bin/sh by Policy. One example of this is that (at least) bash and dash implement "printf" as a builtin (posh and mksh don't). The /etc/init.d/udev script uses printf, which is part of the Essen- tial package coreutils, but resides in /usr/bin – which normally is not a problem. But it also sets the PATH to /bin:/sbin which makes this into a problem: due to being executed under "set -e", it aborts under shells other than these implementing a printf builtin once it is called, since /usr/bin/printf cannot be found. An evil Würgaround would be to copy /usr/bin/printf to /bin/ (which is possible if it only links against libraries from /lib/ but total- ly non-standard), which is what I used for now to get my system to boot correctly and be accessible via ssh again. The correct fix would be to use the echo builtin as limited by the Debian Policy description of it, I suppose. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.71-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id1 0.141-1 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip udev recommends no packages. udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
