Subject: kexec-tools: Package fails to install

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:26:09 +0200

Package: kexec-tools
Version: 1:2.0.22-2+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

this is the output of an attempted upgrade of kexec-tools:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 335432 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../kexec-tools_1%3a2.0.22-2+b1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking kexec-tools (1:2.0.22-2+b1) over (1:2.0.20-2.1) ...
Setting up kexec-tools (1:2.0.22-2+b1) ...
Error: argument 'restart' not supported
invoke-rc.d: initscript kexec, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing package kexec-tools (--configure):
 installed kexec-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kexec-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up kexec-tools (1:2.0.22-2+b1) ...
Error: argument 'restart' not supported
invoke-rc.d: initscript kexec, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing package kexec-tools (--configure):
 installed kexec-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kexec-tools

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:	4
Codename:	n/a
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.14.9+ (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages kexec-tools depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.77
ii  dpkg                   1.20.9
ii  libc6                  2.32-4
ii  lsb-base               11.1.0

kexec-tools recommends no packages.

kexec-tools suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* kexec-tools/use_grub_config: false
* kexec-tools/load_kexec: false