"invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start." is more than probably coming from /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d that is something managed by the user (or apparently after some quick googling, used in docker containers). AFAICT this has nothing to do with the lack audit support in containers.
The RH bug you mentioned is quite old, was this tested again? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to audit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1646015 Title: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Status in audit package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: HI I have the docker image for ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 . In both I was tried to install the auditd but getting the following error. apt-get install auditdReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libauparse0 Suggested packages: audispd-plugins The following NEW packages will be installed: auditd libauparse0 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. Need to get 224 kB of archives. After this operation, 753 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 libauparse0 amd64 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu1 [38.6 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 auditd amd64 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu1 [186 kB] Fetched 224 kB in 0s (409 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package libauparse0:amd64. (Reading database ... 6501 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../0-libauparse0_1%3a2.6.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libauparse0:amd64 (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu1) ... Selecting previously unselected package auditd. Preparing to unpack .../1-auditd_1%3a2.6.6-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking auditd (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up libauparse0:amd64 (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up auditd (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu1) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-0ubuntu1) ... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audit/+bug/1646015/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
