Devuan bug report logs - #828
devuan-project: After an upgrade (apt update; apt full-upgrade) the PC fails to reboot correctly.

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From: Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>
To: David Haworth <dh@thelancashireman.org>
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#828: devuan-project: After an upgrade (apt
 update; apt full-upgrade) the PC fails to reboot correctly.
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On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:58:15 +0100
David Haworth <dh@thelancashireman.org> wrote:

> Package: devuan-project
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Yesterday I updated my OS in order to install AusweisApp2.
> On the first attempt I got some errors from the update command, but
> they seemed to be related to source packages. The second attempt
> appeared to succeed, and AusweisApp2 worked as expected.
> 
> Today, after shutdown/reboot, there were lots of error messages. The
> switch to high-resolution text display failed, no display manager
> started and I was dumped into an 80x25 text screen, from which I
> could log in.
> 
> From the error messages that flashed past, I was able to determine a
> few problems:
> 
> * One of the init scripts fails because it cannot find /sbin/modprobe.
>   ** modprobe appears to be in /usr/sbin now.
>   ** As a workaround, I created a symlink:  ln -s /usr/bin/kmod
> /sbin/modprobe
> * Similar failures for depmod and modinfo, similar symlinks created.
> 
> * After the above more error messages from /etc/init.d/mountall.sh,
> /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and others about not being able to find
> grep and sed. On examination, these files I noticed that the PATH is
> forced to /sbin:/bin at the top. grep and sed are in /usr/bin now. **
> As a workaround, I edited the files and added :/usr/sbin:/usr/bin to
> the path.
> 
> * After the above I got error messages about eudev. On examination of
> /etc/init.d/uedev I noticed a similar problem with PATH, which I
> worked around in a similar way.
> 
> Now my PC boots to a display manager and I can log in as expected. I
> didn't notice any further error messages.
> 
> As you can see, the problems seem to be associated with several
> packages, so it's hard to pinpoint one package.
> 
> My guess is that the programs that I mentioned - modprobe, depmod,
> modinfo, grep, sed - and many others are being installed in the wrong
> place. My reasoning is that, in a traditional Unix system, it should
> be possible to place /usr in a separate filesystem that won't be
> available at the time these scripts are called. However, on modern
> hardware, it's hardly ever necessary to have a separate filesystem
> for /usr, so it could be simply a path problem in several init
> scripts of at least two packages (initscripts and eudev)

I agree but split /usr without initrd is not supported (upstream) since
like a decade, it more or less worked until now but Debian is finally
breaking it for good with the usrmerge fallout. See my reply in #827
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=827

> 
> Best wishes,
> Dave
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Distributor ID:	Devuan
> Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)
> Release:	6
> Codename:	excalibur ceres
> Architecture: x86_64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_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)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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