Continuation of bug 5162. The bug is still present on Debian 8 (and later?) as far as we know. The upstream bug is closed and there is no note of the bug still being present in later versions of debian, despite this vague comment on our previous bug: (In reply to comment #7) > > If you have further comments please address them to 743903@bugs.debian.org, > > and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. > > Done. We need to make sure Debian is aware of this and fixes is so that ThinLinc can work without people having to read our platform specific notes and apply manual hacks.
*** Bug 5761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #0) > We need to make sure Debian is aware of this and fixes is so that ThinLinc can > work without people having to read our platform specific notes and apply manual > hacks. In the mean time, here's a link to a workaround, documented in our Platform Specific Notes. https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/docs/platforms/ubuntu
This is the error you'll see in tlsetup.log when you've encountered this problem: > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: Output (stderr): > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: Traceback (most recent call last): > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: File "/usr/lib/lsb/install_initd", line 46, in <module> > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: headers = initdutils.scan_initfile(initfile) > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: File "/usr/lib/lsb/initdutils.py", line 79, in scan_initfile > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: inheaders = RFC822Parser(strob=headerlines) > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: File "/usr/lib/lsb/initdutils.py", line 24, in __init__ > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: fileob = StringIO(strob) > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: TypeError: initial_value must be unicode or None, not str > 2015-12-21 14:15:58,862: Failed to install service 'vsmserver' > 2015-12-21 14:16:13,081: tl-setup aborted by user
Verified that problem still exists on Debian 8 with all updates installed: # /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /etc/init.d/cups Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/lsb/install_initd", line 46, in <module> headers = initdutils.scan_initfile(initfile) File "/usr/lib/lsb/initdutils.py", line 79, in scan_initfile inheaders = RFC822Parser(strob=headerlines) File "/usr/lib/lsb/initdutils.py", line 24, in __init__ fileob = StringIO(strob) TypeError: initial_value must be unicode or None, not str Sent an email to 743903@bugs.debian.org in order to reopen this bug.
Works with warnings on Ubuntu 15.10: # /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /etc/init.d/cups Missing should-start facility avahi-daemon (ignored) Missing should-start facility slapd (ignored) Missing should-start facility nslcd (ignored) /etc/init.d/cups: $syslog $remote_fs <_io.TextIOWrapper name='/var/lib/lsb/depends' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults Note that Debian and Ubuntu runs very different versions: Debian: lsb-core 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 install_initd uses Python2. Ubuntu 15.10: lsb-core 4.1+Debian11ubuntu8 install_initd used Python3.
Ubuntu 15.04 works: # /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /etc/init.d/cups Missing should-start facility avahi-daemon (ignored) Missing should-start facility slapd (ignored) Missing should-start facility nslcd (ignored) /etc/init.d/cups: $syslog $remote_fs <_io.TextIOWrapper name='/var/lib/lsb/depends' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'> update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults lsb-core 4.1+Debian11ubuntu8 Ubuntu 14.10: Unable to test, since the repositories are gone. No longer supported. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS works: # /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /etc/init.d/cups Missing should-start facility avahi-daemon (ignored) Missing should-start facility slapd (ignored) Missing should-start facility nslcd (ignored) /etc/init.d/cups: $syslog $remote_fs <_io.TextIOWrapper name='/var/lib/lsb/depends' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'> Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/cups ... /etc/rc1.d/K19cups -> ../init.d/cups /etc/rc2.d/S20cups -> ../init.d/cups /etc/rc3.d/S20cups -> ../init.d/cups /etc/rc4.d/S20cups -> ../init.d/cups /etc/rc5.d/S20cups -> ../init.d/cups lsb-core 4.1+Debian11ubuntu6 My conclusion is that Ubuntu is fine.
The upstream bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743903 ...is open now. That's all for now.
Looks good. Noteworthy is also that they've made a more proper attempt at switching to Python 3 in testing and unstable. Hopefully that means at least future versions of Debian will work.
As of r34910 (Part of Bug 4290) ThinLinc now uses systemd. Due to this change this bug should no longer be an issue for us.
Verified that initd is completely removed by using grep after "etc/init.d/", "init.d" and "install_initd" in the build tree. Also installed build 6416 and verified that no errors about initd appeared in the tlsetup.log.
