From unknown Thu Mar 28 21:42:58 2024 X-Loop: owner@bugs.devuan.org Subject: bug#352: sysvinit-core: Migrating from Debian leaves empty inittab Reply-To: Kevin Ross , 352@bugs.devuan.org Resent-From: Kevin Ross Resent-To: devuan-bugs@lists.dyne.org Resent-CC: owner@bugs.devuan.org Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:33:01 UTC Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.devuan.org X-Devuan-PR-Message: report 352 X-Devuan-PR-Package: sysvinit-core X-Devuan-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool by submit@bugs.devuan.org id=B.15690222038009 (code B ref -1); Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:33:01 UTC Received: (at submit) by bugs.devuan.org; 20 Sep 2019 23:30:03 +0000 Delivered-To: devuanbugs@dyne.org Received: from tupac3.dyne.org [195.169.149.119] by fulcanelli with IMAP (fetchmail-6.3.26) for (single-drop); Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from servercheap.familyross.net (servercheap.familyross.net [107.152.33.177]) by vm6.ganeti.dyne.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819E5F6436F for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2019 01:26:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by servercheap.familyross.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id C5B8C20010; Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kevin Ross To: Devuan Bug Tracking System Message-ID: <156902089577.2986.16413805885308909953.reportbug@servercheap.familyross.net> X-Mailer: reportbug 7.1.6+devuan2.1 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:08:15 +0000 X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on tupac3.dyne.org Package: sysvinit-core Version: 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After performing the migration as outlined at https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-to-ascii the system was left in a pretty unusable state. After much poking around, it seems it left /etc/inittab with a completely empty file. I found a sample in /usr/share/sysvinit-core/inittab, which I copied to /etc/inittab, rebooted, and now everything is good. Either the sysvinit-core installation should intall a working inittab (with the usual prompting about whether to overwrite an existing config file), or at the very least, the instructions at the link above should be modified to tell the user to copy the inittab manually. -- System Information: Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii) Release: 2.0 Codename: ascii Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages sysvinit-core depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii debianutils 4.8.1.1 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3 ii libsepol1 2.6-2 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.9+devuan2 sysvinit-core recommends no packages. Versions of packages sysvinit-core suggests: pn bootlogd -- debconf information: sysvinit/hurd-fix-inittab: