'insserv: script virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist-orig: service vboxguest already provided!' issue during apt-get install/upgrade

Information

ID: 321
PHID: PHID-TASK-ky5ejz3nnma2sc2xe4na
Author: Patrick
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

Description

This is visible during package installation / upgrade.

insserv: script virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist-orig: service vboxguest already provided!
insserv: script virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist-orig: service virtualbox-guest-utils already provided!
insserv: script virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist: service vboxguest already provided!
insserv: script virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist: service virtualbox-guest-utils already provided!

It doesn’t break anything, but is certainly a message that will cause confusion.

How to reproduce:

update-rc.d haveged defaults

(Works with any, haveged, tor, anything.)

This is problematic, because most packages postinst scripts include update-rc.d.

package:
https://github.com/Whonix/vbox-disable-timesync

Debug output:

user@host:~$ ls -la /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 May 20 16:19 /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils -> virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2168 Aug 15  2013 /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2146 Mar  4 09:34 /etc/init.d/virtualbox-guest-utils.anondist-orig

Maybe this can be solved by using config-package-dev’s hide operation instead of the displace operation.

Comments


Patrick

2015-05-23 00:09:28 UTC


Patrick

2015-05-24 14:33:36 UTC