[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#367867: initscripts: need versioned dep on powermgmt-base for on_ac_power

[Stefan Völkel]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> tags 367867 + pending
> thanks
> 
>> on_ac_power is in /usr/bin, where it is useless for the initscripts.
>> We need access to it early in the boot sequence.
> 
> Actually, the calls to on_ac_power in checkfs.sh and checkroot.sh were
> written explicitly to work as before when on_ac_power are unavailable,
> and only skip fsck if the binary is found and report that the laptop
> is on battery, to handle gracefully all installations where /usr/ is
> unavailable.

Not sure if I understood that correctly, but IMHO that is exaclty what
is not working.

My laptop was running on battery and has only one partition, notheless
an fsck was performed, because on_ac_power was no longer found (PATH did
not include /sbin/ IIRC).

regards
	Stefan
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