Devuan bug report logs - #762
Debian removed essential startup scripts

Package: mdadm; Maintainer for mdadm is Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>; Source for mdadm is src:mdadm.

Reported by: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>

Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:28:01 UTC

Severity: critical

Tags: debian

Found in version 4.2+20230508-2

Fixed in version 4.2+20230508-5devuan1

Done: dak@devuan.org

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/1037496

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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:17:51 +0100
From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>
Cc: 762@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#762: Debian removed essential startup scripts
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Klaus,

Could you please clarify the boot failure mode caused by the initscript
removal. We are pursuing this in Debian, but lorenzo has just pointed out that

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 12:18:47PM +0200, lorenzo wrote:                                                                                                   
> Can you elaborate on this? I may be wrong, but I don't understand how the
> removal of mdadm script can render the system unbootable: the script runs
> mdadm in monitor mode and starts in runlevel 2. There is no script (removed)
> in runlevel S, I suspect a fail to boot will involve a problem in the kernel
> or in udev rules (that are still there)?

I have had a quick look and agree.

Is there some other change that has caused this? Or has the initramfs
integration broken. Have you edited the runlevels of the original initscripts?

Best wishes

Mark
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Devuan bug report logs - #762 Debian removed essential startup scripts

Devuan bug report logs - #762
Debian removed essential startup scripts