Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:13:35AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> Having upgraded to wheezy recently, I note that you're changing defaults >> in rcS (as exhaustively discussed elsewhere). >> >> That being the case, there is no additional cost to fixing this bug, >> as people are going to be prompted on upgrade about rcS anyway, so this >> would seem to be a very good time to do it. > > No defaults in rcS have been changed (from a squeeze to wheezy upgrade > POV). We did add some new ones transiently in testing before moving > them to /etc/default/tmpfs, and removed UTC, but the defaults present > in squeeze are unchanged. However, this change has permitted rcS to > become a regular conffile, so now at least we have the /possibilty/ > of updating it to change the defaults sanely.
So I just upgraded another system (although from wheezy of a couple of months ago to current, rather than squeeze to wheezy) and was prompted for changes to rcS -- is this just because the previous wheezy version already had made the switch to conffile? I presume that I got prompted because I had on this occasion remembered to set FSCKFIX=yes. I'm still failing to understand why this isn't a good opportunity to fix the default. It's pretty tiresome to have to preserve the FSCKFIX setting on all upgrades, and I wonder how anyone is really going to benefit from the current default. In order for that to happen one seems to need the conjunction of a regression to a bug in the RAID/LVM setup that was fixed a decade ago, a file system failure that is fixable by hand but not by fsck -y and an admin that's attentive and skilled enough to perform that fix. Meanwhile, the vast bulk of ordinary users get to find out that there's a command called fsck when they are presented with a cryptic prompt in an ugly text console for a root password that they've forgotten, which makes them think that GNU/Linux is a disastrously unreliable system and perhaps causes them scuttle for safety back with MS-Windows (which of course does this sort of thing automatically). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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