Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null
Date	2021-03-07 20:40 +0100
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Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
Control: retitle -1 update-initramfs fails if there is a symlink to /dev/zero in /etc/systemd/network
Control: reassign -1 udev
Control: severity -1 minor

Frederik Lindenaar <frederik@lindenaar.nl> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply. I am not sure how I could have mixed
> these two up but did a quick test with cp just now and the problem
> indeed looks like mixing up /dev/zero and /dev/null (I have no way to
> check that anymore though).
> 
> Nevertheless the result was very confusing (a full disk) so might
> still be good to check somehow

So I'm updating the status.  Also reassigning this to udev, as that is
the package that actually does the copying of /etc/systemd/network.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

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Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null Frederik Lindenaar <debian@frederik.lindenaar.nl> - 2021-03-06 15:10 +0100
  Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 16:40 +0100
    Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null Frederik Lindenaar <frederik@lindenaar.nl> - 2021-03-06 17:30 +0100
  Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2021-03-06 16:50 +0100
    Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null Frederik Lindenaar <frederik@lindenaar.nl> - 2021-03-06 17:30 +0100
      Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2021-03-07 20:40 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when  /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-03-06 17:10 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#984650: update-initramfs fails when  /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link is symlink to /dev/null "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-03-07 21:00 +0100

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