[Debian] Re: Bug#576227: insserv: warning: script is corrupt or invalid: /etc/init.d/../rc6.d/S00vzreboot

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Kir

Thanks a lot for this information. I'll add a note about this to the README.Debian
file so people know about this limitation.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 02:56:54PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 04:04 PM, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>> Hi Christian
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:13:38AM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
>>    
>>> Hi Ola,
>>>
>>> * Ola Lundqvist<opal at debian.org>  [100402 00:49]:
>>>      
>>>> I have never used insserv myself. Can you send me your
>>>> S00vzreboot file? I need to determine why it considers it to be
>>>> corrupt.
>>>>        
>>> Squeeze seems to install insserv by default, so this was not my choice ;-)
>>>
>>>      
>>>>  From the source in squeeze it looks like it generates the following file:
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>        
>>>>> /reboot
>>>>>          
>> Ok. Creates a /reboot file. It must have some function in openvz to reboot it.
>>
>>    
>>> Lenny version generates this:
>>>
>>>     # cat /etc/init.d/../rc6.d/S00vzreboot
>>>     #!/bin/bash
>>>     >//reboot
>>>      
>> Ok. Both has same function.
>>
>>    
>>>> And that is about it. It is understandable if insserv considers it to be
>>>> corrupt. On the other hand, it is really just an empty file so maybe
>>>> insserv should be changed here.
>>>>
>>>> It would be possible to generate more in that script so that insserv determines
>>>> that this is something empty and ignores it.
>>>>        
>>> This is probably the right thing to do, even if it exposes something which looks
>>> like a hack even more.
>>>      
>> Yes. I'm checking with upstream now.
>>    
>
> The problem is not with the text inside the file, the problem is that  
> the file
> itself is a real file, while insserv expects symlink.
>
> Nevertheless, the complaint from insserv is just a warning, and although
> it looks bad nothing bad is happening.
>
> We can redo the logic and create a real file in init.d and then a symlink
> in rc6.d but this will make things more complex, and the sole benefit
> would be that insserv stops complaining. Because of that, I'd rather
> let it stay as is.
>
> More to say, this reboot hack will be replaced by a event-driven daemon
> in future OpenVZ releases so it doesn't make much sense to fix something
> that is not broken and will be gone in the future.
>
> --kir
>

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