The following changes were made:

* removed quotes around chroot command in usher
  * removed hwclock from Required-Start in checkfs
  * removed $local_fs from Required-Start in hostname
  * updated mountvirtfs to create /run/utmp
  * added 2 conditionals to readsvcs() in update-rc

Makefile

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ DESC = This package supplies the base system init scripts for sysvinit
 ARCHIVE := ''
 SRCDIR := $(PWD)/SRC/initscripts
 PATCHDIR := $(PWD)/SRC/patches
-VERSION := 1.0-0
+VERSION := 1.1-0
 
 include /usr/share/snap/Makefile.snaplinux
 

SNAP/usher

@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ case $1 in
     exit 0
     ;;
   postinst)
+    echo "[ENVIRONMENT]\n"
+    env
+    echo "TARGET: ${TARGET}"
+
     if [[ ${TARGET} ]]; then
-      chroot ${TARGET} 'update-rc required'
+      chroot ${TARGET} update-rc required
     else
       update-rc required
     fi

SRC/initscripts/init.d/checkfs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides:            checkfs
-# Required-Start:      udev swap $time hostname hwclock
+# Required-Start:      udev swap $time hostname
 # Required-Stop:
 # Should-Start:
 # Should-Stop:

SRC/initscripts/init.d/hostname

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides:            hostname
-# Required-Start:      $local_fs
-# Required-Stop:       $local_fs
+# Required-Start:
+# Required-Stop:
 # Should-Start:
 # Should-Stop
 # Default-Start:       S

SRC/initscripts/init.d/mountvirtfs

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ mountrun () {
   chmod 1777 /run/shm || return 1
 
   if grep -q '^utmp:' /etc/group; then
-    chmod 664 /run/utmp
+    chmod 664 /run/utmp >> /run/utmp
     chgrp utmp /run/utmp
   fi
 

SRC/initscripts/update-rc

@@ -180,14 +180,15 @@ sub readsvcs {
 		error( int( $! ), "opendir(): " . INITDIR . ": $!" );
 
 	foreach my $svcname ( sort( readdir( DIR ) ) ) {
-		if ( ! -X INITDIR . "/$svcname" ) {
+		if ( ! -f INITDIR . "/$svcname" ||
+		! -X INITDIR . "/$svcname" ) {
 			next;
 			}
 
 		$services->{$svcname} = readinfo( INITDIR . "/$svcname" );
 
 		if ( ! @{$services->{$svcname}{'Provides'}} ) {
-			undef( $services->{$svcname} );
+			delete( $services->{$svcname} );
 
 			next;
 			}
@@ -207,7 +208,8 @@ sub sdepends {
 	my $sdepends = shift || [];
 	my $stack = shift || [];
 
-	if ( @$stack > 99 ) {
+	if ( $stack->[0] && grep( $_ eq $service->{'name'}, @$stack )
+	|| @$stack > 99 ) {
 		return;
 		}