start-stop-daemon wrong in nfsroot reproduced

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

> I had an nfsroot I made end up w/ start-stop-daemon.REAL and
> start-stop-daemon.distrib plus the link pointing to
> fai-start-stop-daemon which is the fake one.
> 
> Doing FAI of boxes off this nfsroot left the fake start-stop-daemon on the
> target systems which is obviously undesirable.
> 
> I recently changed fai servers and re-did fai-setup and start-stop-daemon
> came out correct.  Both nfsroots were made w/ FAI 2.5.3
> 
> For the broken nfsroot, I logged the output of fai-setup to a file
> and I still have the broken nfsroot laying around.
> 
> For the good nfsroot, I also logged the output of fai-setup to a file and
> obviously I'm using that nfsroot now.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I could post the logs from each -- I noticed
> they are a bit different.   In the broken fai-setup log, there's an error
> processing lilo and a complaint about failing to configure the base
> packages -- it then attempts up to 5 times to get it right.  It complained
> about libdevmapper1.00 being a dependency for lilo, but libdevmapper1.00
> wasn't installed.  The successful nfsroot has no such complaints and no
> retries up to 5 times.  I'm guessing it's debootstrap that's doing this.

If you were using woody, I would be curious ;-)


regards,
	Holger

> Anyway -- at least I learned from the mailing list that the fix for
> left over fake start-stop-daemon is to re-make the nfsroot and also
> there's been trouble reproducing the problem...  so this is my offer
> to try and post any forensics you might be interested in.
> 
> Other than these wrinkles, FAI has been a great time saver.  Thanks
> again for keeping FAI development going -- it would be a major loss
> for debian if FAI wasn't an option -- especially considering the new
> installer has had lots of issues (granted it's in development, but
> FAI just seems a lot easier to use once a server is setup).
> 
> -Eric Malkowski
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