Public bug reported:
policy-rc.d(8) can be used to prevent sysvinit services from booting.
This is particularly important within chroots.
In Debian Sid, I used pbuilder(8) to create a lucid "base.tgz" chroot.
I then used pbuilder --login to get a shell, and ran "apt-get install
apport". (I had heard that apport didn't just fire up a web browser,
and so I was trying to use it to report a bug in lucid's kernel.)
To my surprise, I found the postinst was trying to start a service:
Setting up apport (1.12-0ubuntu5) ...
start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
Luckily it failed, because I wasn't running upstart outside the
chroot. But it seems to me that either upstart's start(8) should
either honour policy-rc.d, or at least reinvent it.
I see five things that could happen here:
- I've misunderstood the error message. Flag MOREINFO.
- upstart already has a policy-rc.d equivalent, and apport needs to
be told to honor it in apport's postinst. Assign to apport.
- upstart already has a policy-rc.d equivalent, and pbuilder needs to
be told to create the appropriate "deny all" policy when creating
Ubuntu-based chroots. Assign to pbuilder.
- upstart has no policy-rc.d equivalent, and needs to grow one.
Assign to upstart.
- upstart has no policy-rc.d equivalent, and the upstart developers
think it doesn't need one. Flag WONTFIX and I get grumpier.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:25:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: apport 1.12-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-openvz x86_64
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid upstart
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postinst calls start(8) instead of invoke-rc.d(8), ignores policy-rc.d(8).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523688
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