Comment 107 for bug 115616

Upgraded a box to 7.10 today, it originally ran 6.06, then it was upgraded to 6.10 and 7.04. All by using apt-get and aptitude. On boot I get a root shell and the continuous error spewing makes it difficult to use that shell.

I browsed trough this thread and if I've read it correctly what this means is that the upgrade path 6.06 > 6.10 works, 6.06 > 6.10 > 7.04 works but 6.06 > 6.10 > 7.04 > 7.10 does not? Even though all these versions are still supported, but since the evms isn't supported in 7.10 this bug wasn't release-critical anymore? Seems to me like a crooked "gray area" in bug tracking policies. Judging from the list of subscribers this is pretty severe. If removing the package fixes it for everyone then surely at least a dummy package could've been provided instead (would cover all upgrade methods and scenarios easy and swift)? (And the real evms be renamed for those who dare.) OTOH if removing the package could cause problems for some people then this is a whole new can of worms. Consider the scenario where something like this would happen to apache(2).

BTW the actual error is slightly different for me, it says "254:8" instead of "254:1" but I guess that could mean that the config file on this box simply has an extra tab on that line.