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FS#451 - pacman -R daemontools removes/destroys inittab

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Rafal Szczepaniak (lanrat) - Thursday, 12 February 2004, 00:46 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Thursday, 12 February 2004, 00:48 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After installig daemontools with pacman -S daemontools I decided that I don't really need this package and run (as usually) pacman -R daemontools. It blown away xfce, X and all consoles. After reboot I couldn't log in because system only asks for runlevel no and then says that there are no more prcesses to be run (no consoles and logins).

The workaround is to reboot from arch install cd and mount partition with /etc and then chroot to it. After this I found an empty inittab. So I replaced it with the backup file (fortunatelly I made one a day ealier).

PS. This is my first bug report I hope It's ok.
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Closed by  Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis)
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 11:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis) - Thursday, 12 February 2004, 11:36 GMT
Thanx for the bug report, however I can't confirm your problem in 2 boxes here. I suppose you haven't modified /etc/inittab by yourself, right ?

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