Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.1.3-2
Severity: important
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This bug has been generated using reportbug run from a debian stable system.
The affected debian testing systems are isolated in a lab and do not have
internet access. The issue is wholly reproducible on several different debian
testing installations.
xen-utils-common fails to install if xen cannot be started. Example
configurations may include:
- Installing xen-utils-common before the xen kernel is installed.
- Installing xen-utils-common as a dependency for xen-utils in a domU.
In both of the above situations xen-utils-common installation fails and
requires a patch to the post-install script to allow installation. If this
patch is not applied xen-utils-common must be removed to allow a sane package
management state.
The root cause of the issue appears to be an implicit dependency on the
starting of the xen init script in the following section of
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xen-utils-common.postinst:
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/xen" ]; then
update-rc.d xen defaults 20 21 >/dev/null
invoke-rc.d xen start || exit $?
fi
# End automatically added section
Commenting out the 'invoke-rc.d' line and running "apt-get -f install" resolves
the installation issue.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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