[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#592427: initscripts: rootcheck logic is completely broken, causes system not to boot

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-11
Severity: grave
Justification: breaks booting

Hi,

One of my nfsroot machines recently had to boot, and it turned out it didn't,
since the filesystem at some point became read-only (which broke pretty
much everything, including the opportunity to remount read-write). This is
pretty unfortunate when you're several thousand kilometres away :-)

The reason is simple: checkroot.sh has lots of logic to parse /etc/fstab to
make sure it doesn't try to do fsck an NFS file system, and then elegantly
throws it all away with an unconditional

        rootcheck=yes

Please remove this line; it looks like it broke in relation to the #526398
bugfix somehow, possibly as forgotten debugging code or similar.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   3.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                         2.17.2-3.1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                       2.88dsf-11 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.88dsf-11 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs                     1.41.12-2  ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                        22.12-1    utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.