On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:04:40PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Mark Brown <broo...@debian.org> writes:

> > Most people do virtualisation rather than chroots (as you yourself were
> > actually going to do) and with virtualisation you don't get the problem
> > since the virtual system is a separate one.  Virtualisation has pretty
> > much removed the reason people used to do this by providing a superior
> > alternative.

> You still have to create the filesystem for it first.

d-i sounds like a good candidate here, you are essentially installing a
new system.

> I looked into writing a patch for this and looked into policy for what
> the right thing to do is. According to policy on a fresh install dpkg
> passes the Null argument as second argument but the "killall ypbind" is
> already portected with an "$2" != "". So on a fresh install the killall
> should not be triggered, right?

> But then what did kill the systems ypbind? I'm afraid of running the
> "create FS for kvm" script again because I'm not on site currently. So
> I can't make a strace of what happens just now.

I suspect it may be getting triggered by the debconf interaction, I'll
try to check at some point.



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