Comment 0 for bug 900526

The SRU verification for bug #771372 in maverick has revealed that debian-installer's chroot setup handling when installing/upgrading packages at install time is different than the chroot setup used by debootstrap. When initially bootstrapping a maverick system, the postinst script of the maverick procps package has its call to 'start' successfully intercepted; however, when *upgrading* the procps package after debootstrap, the start call is not intercepted, resulting in install failures.

Since this is impossible to fix in the maverick installer post-release, I'll backport the fix for bug #602896 in a subsequent procps SRU; but investigation is needed here to find out why d-i isn't handling initctl correctly and make sure this is properly resolved for precise.

15:03 < cjwatson> chroot-setup.sh is supposed to divert initctl too
15:08 < cjwatson> slangasek: There is something odd there, indeed. I don't quite see what; visually, the code seems right
15:08 < slangasek> cjwatson: should I raise a bug on debian-installer?
15:08 < cjwatson> slangasek: yes please
15:09 < slangasek> ok
15:09 < cjwatson> (probably belongs on either pkgsel or debian-installer-utils, but debian-installer is the place to start)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-2.6-generic 3.2.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 5 15:19:29 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 3249CTO
MemoryUsage:
 total used free shared buffers cached
 Mem: 3908928 3711928 197000 0 101976 1062528
 -/+ buffers/cache: 2547424 1361504
 Swap: 6291452 257140 6034312
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro pcie_aspm=force quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: debian-installer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (27 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/23/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6QET52WW (1.22 )
dmi.board.name: 3249CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET52WW(1.22):bd08/23/2010:svnLENOVO:pn3249CTO:pvrThinkPadX201:rvnLENOVO:rn3249CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 3249CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO