Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb

[Andrew Bower]

Mark,

On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 04:16:29PM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 08:32:28PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 08:23:51PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > > Andrew,
> > > 
> > > I suppose adding something in initscripts might be possible.
> > 
> > Actually, is there a reason why this or something similar should be included in
> > wtmpdb itself?
> 
> Your initscript works nicely, thanks! Validation for your translator?

Actually, I see no reason to rely on most of these dependencies or wait
until runlevel 2.

The dbus dependency is only for systemd to tell us about a "soft
reboot", which is obviously not a thing in this case.

How about this change? Seems to work ok.

diff --git a/debian/wtmpdb.wtmpdb-update-boot.init b/debian/wtmpdb.wtmpdb-update-boot.init
index d9213fc..4022d0f 100644
--- a/debian/wtmpdb.wtmpdb-update-boot.init
+++ b/debian/wtmpdb.wtmpdb-update-boot.init
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ fi
 # Provides:          wtmpdb-update-boot
 # Required-Start:    $remote_fs
 # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs
-# Should-Start:      dbus systemd-remount-fs systemd-tmpfiles-setup
-# Should-Stop:       dbus systemd-remount-fs systemd-tmpfiles-setup
-# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Should-Start:
+# Should-Stop:
+# Default-Start:     1 2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 6
 # Short-Description: Write boot and shutdown times into wtmpdb
 # Description:       Invokes wtmpdb to write boot and shutdown times
 #                    into the wtmpdb login database.