Incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing valid name for `Provides:' please add
Recently I installed: Debian x86_64, oracle 11g and OCI8. I'd like to turn automatic the shell script below, but I received the following message error:
root@debian:/etc/init.d# uname -a
Linux debian 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@debian:/etc/init.d# update-rc.d oracle-shm defaults
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: Script oracle-shm is broken: incomplete LSB comment.
insserv: missing valid name for `Provides:' please add.
Looking my configuration file it has the comment necessary, as you can see below.
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting script /etc/init.d/oracle-shm"
# Run only once at system startup
rm -rf /dev/shm
mkdir /dev/shm
mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=2048m /dev/shm
touch /dev/shm/.oracle-shm
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping script /etc/init.d/oracle-shm"
echo "Nothing to do"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/oracle-shm {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: oracle-shm
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Bind /run/shm to /dev/shm at system startup.
# Description: Fix to allow Oracle 11g use AMM.
### END INIT
Answer
I also received the message insserv: missing valid name for 'Provides:' please add ... when (re-)starting some init.d service foo. File /etc/init.d/foo did have a valid Provides
line, i.e.:
...
# Provides: foo
...
Nevertheless, service foo started fine despite that error message.
It turned out that insserv or whatever seems to complain about problems in any init.d script found in directory /etc/init.d/**, not necessarily the one that is currently being (re-)started.
Therefore, execute the following command to find problematic init.d scripts:
cd /etc/init.d/ && sudo grep -rin Provides
It will list all Provides lines of all scripts found in /etc/init.d/
Check whether all of them have a valid name provided.
In my case, there was a file /etc/init.d/template which had a Provides line without a name.
After I changed that file's line with Provides: template, the insserv error message disappeared.