Bug#989284: insserv: toggles rc0.d/{K02avahi-daemon => K01avahi-daemon} with every upgrade

[Jesse Smith]

On 2021-09-26 8:55 p.m., Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2021, Jesse Smith wrote:
>
>> I checked out the init.d directories provided by Thorsten. One of the
>> features of insserv allows it to test init scripts in an alternative
>> directory or chroot.
> This seems to be broken:
>
> tglase at tglase:~ $ insserv -p etc-stripped
> insserv: fopen(/etc/init.d/.depend.boot): Permission denied
>
> (Having extracted the tarball as regular user so there are no
> permission issues.)

Hmm, that's interesting. What happens if you run "insserv -n -p
etc-stripped"? And then, if it suggests changing the symlinks from K02
to K01, doing that manually? eg "mv etc-stripped/rc0.d/K02avahi-daemon
etc-stripped/rc0.d/K01avahi-daemon" and then re-running insserv?

>> If others see the same behaviour I do, then I'm guessing there is
>> something else on the reporting system with the error which causes a
>> conflict. But if other people are seeing the "toggle" between K01 and
> Do you want strace(1)s or so?
>
Not yet, let's see what the above tests reveals first and go from there.