Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
Hi Arthur, It seems this bug still exists in devfsd package. Given that the only kernel planned as part of the etch release is 2.6.16+ which has no support for devfs, perhaps it's time to request removal of devfsd from etch/sid? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
severity 306990 grave found 306990 1.3.25-23 thanks I see this problem with the current unstable/sid packages. To reproduce it, install ltsp-server and run this command: ltsp-build-client --dist sid --mirror http://ftp.skolelinux.no/debian After a while, this error occures: [...] Setting up lvm-common (1.5.20) ... invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. dpkg: error processing lvm-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 100 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lvm2: lvm2 depends on lvm-common ( 1.5.8); however: Package lvm-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing lvm2 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libgdbm3 (1.8.3-2) ... Setting up whiptail (0.51.6-31) ... Setting up cpp-4.0 (4.0.2-2) ... Setting up cpp (4.0.2-1) ... Setting up libmagic1 (4.12-1) ... Setting up file (4.12-1) ... Setting up libkrb53 (1.3.6-5) ... Setting up libedit2 (2.9.cvs.20050518-2.2) ... Setting up openssh-client (4.2p1-5) ... Setting up cramfsprogs (1.1-6) ... Setting up devfsd (1.3.25-23) ... devfsd: No devfs on /dev, not starting. devfsd: No devfs on /dev, not starting. [...] As this bug blocks the installation of another package (lvm-common), I raise the severity to grave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
tags 306990 patch thanks Hi folks, How does this patch look? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer diff -u devfsd-1.3.25/debian/changelog devfsd-1.3.25/debian/changelog --- devfsd-1.3.25/debian/changelog +++ devfsd-1.3.25/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +devfsd (1.3.25-22.1) unstable; urgency=high + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * High-urgency upload for sarge-targetted RC bugfix + * Make sure update-devfsd fails if called when the package is +obviously not yet configured. Closes: #306990. + + -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 14 May 2005 03:17:41 -0700 + devfsd (1.3.25-22) unstable; urgency=low * templates localisations: diff -u devfsd-1.3.25/debian/update-devfsd devfsd-1.3.25/debian/update-devfsd --- devfsd-1.3.25/debian/update-devfsd +++ devfsd-1.3.25/debian/update-devfsd @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ fi } +# if the directory doesn't exist, the package is probably not yet +# configured; exit gracefully so packages calling this script +# opportunistically don't fail. +[ -d /etc/devfs/symlinks.d ] || exit 0 + findfiles /etc/devfs/symlinks.d /etc/devfs/symlinks /etc/devfs/symlinks.list findfiles /etc/devfs/devices.d /etc/devfs/devices /etc/devfs/devices.list signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
John Goerzen schrieb:
Well, like I said, devfs was unpacked but not configured. Init
scripts are conffiles, and so they aren't created until the
configuration stage.
They are unpacked just as every other file, except that the
backup file is kept.
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Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
Hi Steve Langasek schrieb: How does this patch look? Ahrg, I just notice I introduced a similar check (in the findfiles function though) in my local version but forgot to update the changelog or upload it. This is in 1.3.25-23 now. Fixing this there remains the problem of invoke-rc.d failing. I'm still confident that conffiles are actually unpacked with everything else on first installation of the package. But since it does not really matter wheter devfsd is restarted if it isn't already running, I'll ignore errors of invoke-rc.d in update-devfsd. This is in 1.3.25-23 too. Notice that any config files added by maintainers of other packages to devfsd and committed with update-devfsd are no more garanteed to take effect immediately unless update-devfsd -f is used. (which in turn still fails if devfsd can't be restarted for some reason). regards, 2ri -- Secure email, spread GPG, clearsign all mail. http://www.gnupg.org . Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:10:44PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: Steve Langasek schrieb: How does this patch look? Ahrg, I just notice I introduced a similar check (in the findfiles function though) in my local version but forgot to update the changelog or upload it. This is in 1.3.25-23 now. Fixing this there remains the problem of invoke-rc.d failing. I'm still confident that conffiles are actually unpacked with everything else on first installation of the package. But since it does not really matter wheter devfsd is restarted if it isn't already running, I'll ignore errors of invoke-rc.d in update-devfsd. This is in 1.3.25-23 too. Notice that any config files added by maintainers of other packages to devfsd and committed with update-devfsd are no more garanteed to take effect immediately unless update-devfsd -f is used. (which in turn still fails if devfsd can't be restarted for some reason). Ok. I reasoned that my fix had the least number of side-effects, because it didn't make any sense at all to restart devfsd while the package was in an unconfigured state. If you think that a missing symlinks.d directory isn't a good indicator of the package being unconfigured, then that's fine too. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
John Goerzen schrieb: On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:19:46AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: find: /etc/devfs/symlinks.d: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. The lvm-common postinstallation script does not contain this commands but calls /usr/sbin/update-devfsd. This script does call find and invoke-rc.d with devfsd which fails on your machine. Well, then you must depend on that. In fact, devfsd was being installed in the same apt-get run, but hadn't yet been configured. So it existed on the system but wasn't setup. You must either depend on it or not require it. So then what am I supposed to do about this in devfsd when it's a missing dependency in lvm-common? ciao, 2ri -- Secure email, spread GPG, clearsign all mail. http://www.gnupg.org . Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? A: gunzip strip touch finger mount fsck \ more yes fsck fsck fsck umount sleep signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
lvm-common does not depend on devfsd and it should not. John, can you tell me which version of devfsd you exactly installed when you had that problem. I seems you had the update-devfsd script on your system but _not_ devfsd's init script, but I can't think of a way this could happen. ciao, 2ri -- Secure email, spread GPG, clearsign all mail. http://www.gnupg.org . They are really completely different things, so don't mix them up, but they have a close relation to each other. -- http://hurddocs.org/whatis/translator.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 07:54:10PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: lvm-common does not depend on devfsd and it should not. John, can you tell me which version of devfsd you exactly installed when you had that problem. I seems you had the update-devfsd script on your system but _not_ devfsd's init script, but I can't think of a way this could happen. Well, like I said, devfs was unpacked but not configured. Init scripts are conffiles, and so they aren't created until the configuration stage. If you don't depend on devfsd, then you mustn't use the files that are created by its configure phase, since the system will not guarantee that it is configured before running your postinst. The version was 1.3.25-19, as in testing. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.01.04-5 Severity: serious Justification: fails to install Setting up lvm-common (1.5.17) ... find: /etc/devfs/symlinks.d: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. dpkg: error processing lvm-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 100 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lvm2: lvm2 depends on lvm-common ( 1.5.8); however: Package lvm-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing lvm2 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages lvm2 depends on: ii debconf 1.4.48 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdevmapper1.012:1.01.00-4 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii lvm-common 1.5.17 The Logical Volume Manager for Lin -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
reassign 306990 lvm-common severity 306990 important tags 306990 moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:33:03PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Setting up lvm-common (1.5.17) ... find: /etc/devfs/symlinks.d: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. dpkg: error processing lvm-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 100 1. lvm-common fails to install. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lvm2: lvm2 depends on lvm-common ( 1.5.8); however: Package lvm-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing lvm2 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 2. lvm2 depends on lvm-common. Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) 3. amd64 is no Debian architecture. So now the problem: find: /etc/devfs/symlinks.d: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. The lvm-common postinstallation script does not contain this commands but calls /usr/sbin/update-devfsd. This script does call find and invoke-rc.d with devfsd which fails on your machine. Bastian -- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not stopped. -- Spock, Day of the Dove, stardate unknown signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
reassign 306990 devfsd tags 306990 - unreproducible moreinfo thanks On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 00:19 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: reassign 306990 lvm-common severity 306990 important tags 306990 moreinfo unreproducible thanks [...] So now the problem: find: /etc/devfs/symlinks.d: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. The lvm-common postinstallation script does not contain this commands but calls /usr/sbin/update-devfsd. This script does call find and invoke-rc.d with devfsd which fails on your machine. I can reproduce the first error msg by simply installing devfsd on a sarge system. This is definitely a devfsd problem. If update-devfsd is no longer used or something, please clone the bug and assign to lvm-common, and we'll remove the call. -- Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#306990: lvm2: Strange error when attempting to install
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:19:46AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: 2. lvm2 depends on lvm-common. Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) 3. amd64 is no Debian architecture. The problem actually occured on i386; I was just running reportbug in amd64. So now the problem: find: /etc/devfs/symlinks.d: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/devfsd not found. The lvm-common postinstallation script does not contain this commands but calls /usr/sbin/update-devfsd. This script does call find and invoke-rc.d with devfsd which fails on your machine. Well, then you must depend on that. In fact, devfsd was being installed in the same apt-get run, but hadn't yet been configured. So it existed on the system but wasn't setup. You must either depend on it or not require it. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
