[Resolvconf-devel] Bug#657259: resolvconf wipes out /run

[Antonio Ospite]

Package: resolvconf
Version: 1.63
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,

maybe it is just me, but resolvconf breaks udev on my system, so I am setting
the severity to critical here, feel free to downgrade the severity if you
think this is my fault.

That is what is happening:

  1. /sbin/resolvconf defines
       RUN_DIR=/etc/resolvconf/run

  2. /etc/resolvconf/run links to /run in my system

  3. resolvconf --wipe-runtime-directories does
       rm -rf "$RUN_DIR"/*
     which removes non-resolvconf files from /run

After 3., when udev starts I get the message:
  udevd: Failed to create queue file. No such file or directory.

If I set RUN_DIR=/etc/resolvconf/run/resolvconf then udev works again but
resolvconf does not work 100%.

I also see that ubuntu got rid of the link in /etc/resolvconf/run and just
used /run/resolvconf:
http://package-import.ubuntu.com/diffs/resolvconf

Maybe we could do that too?

Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards,
   Antonio Ospite
   http://ao2.it

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages resolvconf depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  initscripts            2.88dsf-18
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28.1

resolvconf recommends no packages.

resolvconf suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* resolvconf/linkify-resolvconf: true
  resolvconf/reboot-recommended-after-removal:
* resolvconf/downup-interfaces:
  resolvconf/link-tail-to-original: false