Your message dated Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:04:02 +0100
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and subject line Re: bug#968: haveged: No /etc/init.d/haveged installed
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regarding haveged: No /etc/init.d/haveged installed
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968: https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=968
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Package: haveged
Version: 1.9.19-12+deb13u1devuan1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

installing haveged misses the init.d file, so the daemon
does not run at startup. Reinstalling goes like so:

527-north# apt-get reinstall haveged
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/39.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 634833 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../haveged_1.9.19-12+deb13u1devuan1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking haveged (1.9.19-12+deb13u1devuan1) over (1.9.19-12+deb13u1devuan1) ...
Setting up haveged (1.9.19-12+deb13u1devuan1) ...
Processing triggers for orphan-sysvinit-scripts (0.21+deb13u2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ...

528-north# ls -l /etc/init.d/haveged
ls: cannot access '/etc/init.d/haveged': No such file or directory

I suspect that trigger for orphan-sysvinit-scripts
is the culprit.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:    Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur)
Release:    6
Codename:    excalibur
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.12.95+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages haveged depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.68devuan1
ii  libc6                2.41-12+deb13u3
ii  libhavege2           1.9.19-12+deb13u1devuan1

haveged recommends no packages.

Versions of packages haveged suggests:
ii apparmor 4.1.0-1

-- debconf-show failed
On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 06:21:48PM +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> On Thu 09/Jul/2026 20:47:11 +0200 Mark Hindley wrote:
> > Have you purged orphan-sysvinit-scripts?
> >
> > Once you have done that, I think you might need to force conffile reinstall.
> >
> > Something like
> >

> >    apt -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall haveged

>
>
> You nailed it:

OK. So without knowing how the /etc/init.d conffile got removed, it is going to
be really difficult to track this down.

I will close this now as resolved, but if you can get a reproducer, feel free to
reopen.

Thanks

Mark