[pkg-fso-maint] [Fwd: [debian] 2009-09-18 install from scratch: stage apt fails on dropbear restart]

[Steffen Moeller]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 10:55 +0200 schrieb Steffen Moeller:
>> There was most likely a reason for the "dropbear restart". Could
>> someone familiar with
>> that part please investigate what is (or is not) going on here? Is
>> this is a bug in
>> dropbear or elsewhere that has not taken appropriate notice of the
>> chroot environment?
> 
> just a remote guess: You switched from cdebootstrap to apt-get-in-chroot
> for extra packages? This might have caused this. cdebootstrap installs
> some small extra package that makes calls to invoke-rc.d to be a no-op.
> This functionality might have gotten lost when switching to
> apt-get-in-chroot.
> 
> Not sure what the cleanest work-around is. Probably diverting
> invoke-rc.d away, replacing it by /bin/true and undoing it after the
> apt-get run.
Aaaah! Right. I'll address that.

Cheers,

Steffen