Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:46:23PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > Not sure if that means anything, but to me it sounds like an > obsolete mechanism is used somewhere. Partly right. :) I don't like touching these during freeze, though. > I don't know what the intended behavior for /etc/default/watc

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:50:03PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > No, the process is stopped properly. systemctl start and stop > work as expected, only systemctl restart fails. Ah, I missed that bit in your original report. It seems I can reproduce that on my system. > There's a mechanism to prope

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-16 Thread Uwe Storbeck
Hi Michael, here are my results from purging and reinstalling watchdog. There are some messages during the installation: /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling b

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-16 Thread Uwe Storbeck
On Dec 16, Michael Meskes wrote: > What happens if you stop watchdog, does the process go away? Or if you happen > to reboot, does that change things? I'm wondering if the old process stays in > the way and thus may need to be killed manually. I have it that before, that > processes do not disap

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:58:29PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > the watchdog package fails to upgrade (from version 5.14-2): > ... > I'm not sure what the correct severity for this bug should be > (I would consider it RC, so "serious"?). Please adjust the > severity as needed. Please leave it at i

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-11 Thread Uwe Storbeck
Package: watchdog Version: 5.14-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the watchdog package fails to upgrade (from version 5.14-2): Setting up watchdog (5.14-3) ... /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. Job for watchdog.service canceled.