Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:50:03PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: No, the process is stopped properly. systemctl start and stop work as expected, only systemctl restart fails. Ah, I missed that bit in your original report. It seems I can reproduce that on my system. There's a mechanism to

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:46:23PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: Not sure if that means anything, but to me it sounds like an obsolete mechanism is used somewhere. Partly right. :) I don't like touching these during freeze, though. I don't know what the intended behavior for

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-16 Thread Uwe Storbeck
On Dec 16, Michael Meskes wrote: What happens if you stop watchdog, does the process go away? Or if you happen to reboot, does that change things? I'm wondering if the old process stays in the way and thus may need to be killed manually. I have it that before, that processes do not

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-16 Thread Uwe Storbeck
Hi Michael, here are my results from purging and reinstalling watchdog. There are some messages during the installation: /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:58:29PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: the watchdog package fails to upgrade (from version 5.14-2): ... I'm not sure what the correct severity for this bug should be (I would consider it RC, so serious?). Please adjust the severity as needed. Please leave it at

Bug#772826: watchdog fails to upgrade

2014-12-11 Thread Uwe Storbeck
Package: watchdog Version: 5.14-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the watchdog package fails to upgrade (from version 5.14-2): Setting up watchdog (5.14-3) ... /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. Job for watchdog.service