[systemd-devel] Running “telinit u” on glibc update

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Florian

2018-05-16 15:01 GMT+02:00 Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>:
> In Fedora, for historic reasons, we run “/sbin/telinit u” after installing a
> new glibc RPM package version.
>
> Does this still make sense?  Should we remove the code which invokes telinit
> from the glibc package?

We had something similar in the Debian glibc package
The background is in this bug report
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753725

Afaiu, the telinit u was originally added so sysvinit can shutdown
cleanly and there were no open fds:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=25444

But this is not an issue with systemd/systemd-shutdown.
As the daemon-reexec was causing issues in Debian, we decided to
remove it from the glibc postinst.

Regards,
Michael
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