Package: sysvinit Severity: serious Version: 2.86.ds1-11 Tags: d-i, patch S/390 has for a long time not been installable due to an issue with parted support, so I guess that's why nobody noticed this before. After installing a new system, the system fails to boot correctly. After cron is started, messages appear: INIT: Id "[1-6]" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
Reason is that a "regular" inittab is installed instead of the special
S/390 one for dumb terminal.
The problem has probably been there since:
sysvinit (2.83-2) unstable; urgency=high
* Install inittab.$(arch) as default inittab in the installation
process, if it exists. Add inittab.s390 (closes: #113495)
In the source we have:
debian/share/inittab.s390-linux
However:
$ dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE
s390-linux-gnu
So, please rename inittab.s390-linux to inittab.s390-linux-gnu.
This should solve the problem.
A prompt upload with high urgency would be very much appreciated as we're
currently preparing the Etch Beta2 release of Debian Installer and this
is the only issue keeping S/390 from being supported again in this
release.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
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