Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.11
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
The initscripts package normally does a fine job
of orchestrating many diverse and important
resources.
The main reason I'm writing is that after
upgrading and re-booting, many, many errors
appeared on the system console, including
Permission denied
Read-only file system
unable to open pidfile
module <you name it> not found
/etc/init.d/rc: line 150: /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh Permission denied
If I recall correctly, I also saw errors something like
hostname: Unknown host (none)
As you might imagine, the computer made Charlie
Sheen look stable.
I rebooted the computer with a live CD, either
Puppy Linux or System Rescue CD, chrooted to the
hard drive, and saw that several init scripts lacked
permission to be executed.
I listed them with
$ ls -l $(dpkg -L initscripts | egrep "init.d" | egrep sh)
and saw lines like
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9398 Jul 13 14:11 /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh
So I did a
$ chmod 755 <init script name>
on the init scripts that needed permission to
execute, and rebooted.
It seemed to work.
The bad news?
How the scripts lost execute permission is a
mystery.
I hope this humble bug report helps others,
Kingsley
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii debianutils 4.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.13-16 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii mount 2.19.1-5 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-13.11 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-13.11 System-V-like utilities
Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii e2fsprogs 1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii psmisc 22.14-1 utilities that use the proc file s
initscripts suggests no packages.
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