more info, the problem appears when booting a 8.04.3 headless system, messages are routed to a serial console, When chown fails finding certaing files on /var it sends error messages to console with missing carriage returns.
taking a look to the package source it seems al non-interactive utils use the error routines provided by error.c. this file uses "\n" when writing to stderr but for some reason the serial console requieres the \r also? -- errors messages are not ended by \n https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
