Bug#386469: openbsd-inetd, action start failed when upgrading

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Marco, I've prepared an NMU for this issue with the following patch. I think the 'which invoke-rc.d' check is probably unnecessary altogether, because invoke-rc.d has been part of essential since sarge, but it doesn't hurt overly much; anyway, if invoke-rc.d is missing, I haven't bothered

Bug#386469: openbsd-inetd, action start failed when upgrading

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
So far, none of the people reporting this bug have provided information that can be used to track it down. Most users are quoting the failure to set up openbsd-inetd -- that's not news, what we need is output from the *unpack* stage of the upgrade showing why the attempt to *stop* the previous

Bug#386469: openbsd-inetd, action start failed when upgrading

2007-03-11 Thread Norman Messtorff
Very strange, but i cannot reproduce this bug again on my machine. Upgrade from: -3 to -4: no problems -4 to -5: no problems -3 to -5: no problems -5 plain install: no problems. Every time purged the package. Downgrade from: -5 to -4: no problems All on the same machine i've reported some

Bug#386469: openbsd-inetd, action start failed when upgrading

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:42:38PM +0100, Norman Messtorff wrote: Attached you will find a logfile with my trials and the snipplet of my dpkg.log from upgrade on 2007-03-05. Ok, but this dpkg.log only shows the status of openbsd-inetd *after* the upgrade has been started. Context at the

Bug#386469: openbsd-inetd, action start failed when upgrading

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
clone 386469 -1 tags -1 =patch reassign -1 update-inetd retitle -1 update-inetd: no reason to restart inetd on service removal severity -1 important thanks Discussing with Marco on IRC, it seems he's reluctant to have inetd running when no services are configured, but it's clear in any case that