Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-01-17 at 12:10 -0500, Jason Rhinelander wrote: > On 16/01/16 09:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 11:18 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > initramfs-tools needs this patch to be able to resolve recursive > > > symlinks, or else the system will not boot while in the mi

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-17 Thread Jason Rhinelander
On 16/01/16 09:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 11:18 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: initramfs-tools needs this patch to be able to resolve recursive symlinks, or else the system will not boot while in the middle of a merged /usr transition. Then I will add a versioned conflict to t

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 11:18 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Control: clone 810860 -1 > Control: severity -1 important > Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools > Control: tag -1 patch > Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools does not follow recursive symlinks > > initramfs-tools needs this patch to be able

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
Control: clone 810860 -1 Control: severity -1 important Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools Control: tag -1 patch Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools does not follow recursive symlinks initramfs-tools needs this patch to be able to resolve recursive symlinks, or else the system will not boot whi

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-13 Thread Jason Rhinelander
It seems to work with an artificial nest of various symlinks (both absolute and relative) that I created, though I didn't replicate the usrmerge intermediate step to actually test it there. Just for reference, here's what I tested the patched validate_init with: jagerman@loki:~$ ls -laR /mntte

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-13 Thread Jason Rhinelander
On 12/01/16 06:05 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 12, Jason Rhinelander wrote: Thank you for testing the conversion program, for a start! I installed usrmerge, and got the following during configuration: This is expected and not a bug. Right (was just reporting it for context). At this po

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-13 Thread Jason Rhinelander
On 12/01/16 06:05 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 12, Jason Rhinelander wrote: > > Thank you for testing the conversion program, for a start! > >> I installed usrmerge, and got the following during configuration: > This is expected and not a bug. Right (was just reporting it for context). >> A

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 12, Jason Rhinelander wrote: Thank you for testing the conversion program, for a start! > I installed usrmerge, and got the following during configuration: This is expected and not a bug. > I could not figure out which processes/daemons in particular were > causing the errors. The next r

Bug#810860: usrmerge: System cannot be rebooted after partial usrmerge installation

2016-01-12 Thread Jason Rhinelander
Package: usrmerge Version: 6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, I installed usrmerge on a system to try it out, and ended up with system that could not be rebooted. I'll try to outline the status as best I recall in the hopes that you can recreate the issu