Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package initscripts

Maintainers for initscripts are Debian sysvinit maintainers <[email protected]>.

You may want to refer to the following packages that are part of the same source: bootlogd, sysv-rc, sysvinit-core, sysvinit-utils.

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Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Confirmed (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (7 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (4 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (8 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; More information needed (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (3 bugs)

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)

#539352 [i|H|=] [initscripts] /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh: Please mount debugfs when available in the kernel
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:45:04 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: help; Merged with 572733, 601757, 748291, 768919, 769494, 968425; Found in versions sysvinit/2.87dsf-8.1, sysvinit/2.86.ds1-65, sysvinit/2.96-4, sysvinit/3.06-4, sysvinit/2.88dsf-13.13, sysvinit/2.88dsf-57; Filed 15 years and 290 days ago; Modified 89 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)

#416086 [i|☹| ] [initscripts] symlinks are not removed on uninstall/purge
Reported by: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:39:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: wontfix; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-38; Filed 18 years and 54 days ago; Modified 8 years and 155 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (2 bugs)

#326647 [n|+|☺] [initscripts] initscripts: Should not fsck when laptop is running on battery
Reported by: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in versions initscripts/2.86.ds1-1, 2.86.ds1-62, initscripts/2.84-1; Fixed in version 2.86.ds1-2; Filed 19 years and 255 days ago; Modified 6 years and 70 days ago;
#686895 [n|+| ] [initscripts] initscripts: /forcefsck: fsck -f undefined (e2fsck-ism)
Reported by: Simrun Basuita <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 01:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed, patch; Filed 12 years and 251 days ago; Modified 6 years and 58 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Confirmed (2 bugs)

#408954 [n| | ] [initscripts] checkroot.sh: should not skip running fsck with JFS root
Reported by: Ari Sovijärvi <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:48:20 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-36; Filed 18 years and 108 days ago; Modified 6 years and 69 days ago;
#688412 [n| | ] [initscripts] initscripts: /tmp has wrong size
Reported by: Constantin Makshin <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: confirmed; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-32; Filed 12 years and 235 days ago; Modified 5 years and 300 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (7 bugs)

#444262 [n| | ] [initscripts] Other dirs have to be unmounted during umountnfs.sh script
Reported by: "Loïc Grenié" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:00:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-38.1; Filed 17 years and 232 days ago; Modified 17 years and 232 days ago;
#503765 [n| | ] [initscripts] /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh: Misleading message if on battery and /fastboot or FSCKTYPES=none
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-61; Filed 16 years and 200 days ago; Modified 15 years and 316 days ago;
#503767 [n| | ] [initscripts] /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh: Should obey FSCKTYPES as checkfs does
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:24:07 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-61; Filed 16 years and 200 days ago; Modified 15 years and 316 days ago;
#571241 [n| | ] [initscripts] checkroot.sh: should not try to fsck rootfs on ubifs
Reported by: Bart Trojanowski <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:00:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version sysvinit/2.87dsf-8; Filed 15 years and 81 days ago; Modified 6 years and 72 days ago;
#661591 [n| |☣] [whereami] packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed
Reported by: "Andrew O. Shadura" <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 13 years and 77 days ago; Modified 2 years and 113 days ago;
#704108 [n| | ] [initscripts] umountfs: cannot unmount unusual bind mounts
Reported by: Askar Safin <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:06:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-41; Filed 12 years and 49 days ago; Modified 1 year and 132 days ago;
#719249 [n| | ] [initscripts] initscripts: mount-functions.sh creates .tmpfs files even when mounting fails
Reported by: Matthijs Kooijman <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-43; Filed 11 years and 279 days ago; Modified 11 years and 279 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; More information needed (1 bug)

#998051 [n|M| ] [initscripts] initscripts: /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/ptmx have wrong permissions after boot in lxc container
Reported by: Anton Khirnov <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 07:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version sysvinit/2.96-7; Filed 3 years and 197 days ago; Modified 80 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs)

#470956 [m| | ] [initscripts] initscripts: checkroot.sh shouldn't fsck twice with /forcefsck
Reported by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:27:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-54; Filed 17 years and 63 days ago; Modified 6 years and 67 days ago;
#907606 [m| | ] [initscripts] fsck takes hours to complete, just due to slow screen output
Reported by: Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:03:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-59.9; Filed 6 years and 258 days ago; Modified 3 years and 128 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)

#275441 [m|☹| ] [initscripts] initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh should use use uids, not usernames.
Reported by: Daniel van Eeden <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:18:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: wontfix; Found in version 2.86-5; Filed 20 years and 222 days ago; Modified 19 years and 249 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (4 bugs)

#583811 [w|+|=] [initscripts] initscripts: cleanup + suggestions
Reported by: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 19:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Merged with 922423; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-7; Filed 14 years and 351 days ago; Modified 55 days ago;
#717488 [w|+| ] [initscripts] Please provide option to launch /etc/init.d/ups-monitor when halting the system
Reported by: "Fabien C." <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:27:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-41; Filed 11 years and 298 days ago; Modified 90 days ago;
#738855 [w|+| ] [initscripts] initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @
Reported by: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:00:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-41; Filed 11 years and 91 days ago; Modified 90 days ago;
#928919 [w|+| ] [initscripts] patch: Do not hide errors from initscripts
Reported by: Dmitry Bogatov <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 04:09:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 6 years and 2 days ago; Modified 5 years and 358 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (8 bugs)

#339850 [w| | ] [initscripts] initscripts: Check filesystems after an unclean shutdown?
Reported by: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version initscripts/2.86.ds1-1; Filed 19 years and 179 days ago; Modified 19 years and 97 days ago;
#393312 [w| |=] [initscripts] fsck should run at shutdown, not startup, when possible
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:33:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 568251; Found in versions sysvinit/2.87dsf-8, sysvinit/2.86.ds1-14.1; Filed 18 years and 214 days ago; Modified 6 years and 71 days ago;
#637087 [w| | ] [initscripts] Please set FSCKFIX=yes by default
Reported by: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 281 days ago; Modified 6 years and 62 days ago;
#661312 [w| |=☣] [piuparts] document+test tempdir for nodev/nosuid and error out early
Reported by: Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 677238; Found in versions piuparts/0.44, piuparts/0.43; Filed 13 years and 79 days ago; Modified 12 years and 335 days ago;
#675331 [w| | ] [initscripts] initscripts: checkroot.sh and checkfs.sh: notifying the user about the check if plymouth is running may be useful
Reported by: Ivan Krylov <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 09:48:55 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-22.1; Filed 12 years and 349 days ago; Modified 12 years and 349 days ago;
#708934 [w| |=] [initscripts] how to avoid all mounts for LXC systems?
Reported by: Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 14:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 750109; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-41; Filed 11 years and 361 days ago; Modified 80 days ago;
#923231 [w| |♙] [initscripts] initscripts: remove workaround for hurd tmpfs, introduced in 922915
Reported by: Dmitry Bogatov <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:36:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: cleanup; Found in version sysvinit/2.93-9; Fix blocked by 923078: hurd: tmpfs not ready for shm support yet; Filed 6 years and 78 days ago; Modified 6 years and 78 days ago;
#973401 [w| | ] [initscripts] initscripts: TMPTIME=0 should mkfs for separate filesystem
Reported by: Nigel Horne <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:12:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version sysvinit/2.96-5; Filed 4 years and 196 days ago; Modified 4 years and 196 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; More information needed (3 bugs)

#501481 [w|M| ] [initscripts] drop logsave from checkroot.sh and checkfs.sh please?
Reported by: Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version sysvinit/2.86.ds1-61; Filed 16 years and 221 days ago; Modified 4 years and 103 days ago;
#551555 [w|M| ] [initscripts] mountnfs.sh: start should declare dependency on name resolver
Reported by: Ben Finney <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:36:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version sysvinit/2.87dsf-6; Filed 15 years and 210 days ago; Modified 80 days ago;
#693398 [w|M| ] [initscripts] broken cleanup handling in *-bootclean
Reported by: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:09:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version sysvinit/2.88dsf-32; Filed 12 years and 181 days ago; Modified 6 years and 136 days ago;

Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (3 bugs)

#49670 [w|☹|=] [initscripts] Loop fs need to be mounted, fscked separately
Reported by: Steve Bowman <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Merged with 138040; Found in version 2.86-5; Filed 25 years and 191 days ago; Modified 8 years and 52 days ago;
#568200 [w|☹|=] [initscripts] initscripts: fsck attempted on non-existent partitions
Reported by: Arthur Marsh <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 03:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Merged with 962350; Found in version sysvinit/2.87dsf-8; Filed 15 years and 103 days ago; Modified 89 days ago;
#703010 [w|M☹|=☣] [debianutils] debianutils: ischroot can no longer detect vservers
Reported by: Andrew Ruthven <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:30:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo, wontfix; Merged with 703011, 703012; Found in versions debianutils/4.3.2, debianutils/4.3.4; Filed 12 years and 63 days ago; Modified 1 year and 305 days ago;

Summary

Status
- 35 Outstanding
Severity
- 2 Important bugs
- 12 Normal bugs
- 3 Minor bugs
- 18 Wishlist items
Classification
- 6 Patch Available
- 2 Confirmed
- 18 Unclassified
- 4 More information needed
- 5 Will Not Fix

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