[Bug 1546688] Re: Upgrades to xenial fail when installing initscripts

[Steve Langasek]

I don't think it's correct to describe this as an upgrade failure.  The
conffile prompt is a bug and should be reported / fixed, but upgrade
tests ought to be running with a dpkg option such as --force-confnew, so
that conffile prompts don't block running the rest of the upgrade and
finding other bugs.

This is likely related to the recent changes for UTC handling in
/etc/default/rcS.  Assigning to Martin.

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

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Title:
  Upgrades to xenial fail when installing initscripts

Status in Auto Upgrade Testing:
  New

Bug description:
  We're running daily tests upgrading cloud images to xenial. The basic wily images started failing to install initscripts as part of the upgrade on February 12 in qemu. Trusty images are showing the same issue, where the relevant parts of the output are:
  Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2) ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/halt ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/killprocs ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/ondemand ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/rc.local ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/reboot ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/sendsigs ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/single ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/umountfs ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/umountroot ...

  Configuration file '/etc/default/rcS'
   ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
   ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
     What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
      Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
      N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
        D     : show the differences between the versions
        Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
   The default action is to keep your current version.
  *** rcS (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

  One example job is here:
  https://platform-qa-jenkins.ubuntu.com/view/Upgrade/job/upgrade_ubuntu-wily-xenial-basic-amd64_qemu/97/console

  The issues does not appear to occur during lxc upgrades, only qemu.

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