Bug#1110746: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: mdadm scripts not installed even if package mdadm is installed

[Håkan Johansson]

Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts
Version: 0.21
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
X-Debbugs-Cc: f96hajo at chalmers.se

Dear Maintainer,

I am using mdadm-based raid mirrors for my / file systems on some servers.
I am not using systemd, but this package (orphan-sysvinit-scripts) was already
installed.  After an upgrade to trixie on one such system, it does not boot.
I have currently no access to its console...

On a second similar system (this) I had also performed the update but not yet
rebooted...
On investigation, the file  /etc/init.d/mdadm  is missing.

As far as I can see, this should be installed by

 /usr/lib/orphan-sysvinit-scripts/update_init_d.sh

if the file

 /lib/systemd/system/mdadm.service

exists.  However, that file does not exist.  It looks like it would have come
from the mdadm package in bookworm [1], but no longer in trixie [2].
I suppose this breaks the heuristic in this package for when to install the
mdadm init scripts.

If I cheat a bit and do 'touch /lib/systemd/system/mdadm.service'
followed by running '/usr/lib/orphan-sysvinit-scripts/update_init_d.sh'
then /etc/init.d/mdadm is at least created.

And similary for mdadm-waitidle.service to get mdadm-waitidle.

I have not tested yet if this is sufficient to successfully reboot the system.
(Will only reboot when being physically at the machines. :) )

[1]  https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/mdadm/filelist
[2]  https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/mdadm/filelist


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages orphan-sysvinit-scripts depends on:
ii  ucf  3.0052

orphan-sysvinit-scripts recommends no packages.

orphan-sysvinit-scripts suggests no packages.

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