Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-36 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Using the default binary version of halt shipped with etch prevents diskless systems from booting in response to the wake-on-lan packet. Can't get more critical than a cluster of systems that can't be booted. The 3c59x driver, among others, depends on ifdown to set its wake-on-lan (wol) functions. The binary version of halt shipped with etch (including deboostrap) does not call ifdown. In a diskless setting (clusters) the net driver isn't deconfigured (and WOl enabled) until the ifdown in halt. Compiling 'halt' from the sysvinit sources results in a binary larger than the one in etch, and it works properly. I've proven this by putting debug messages in the kernel, the ioctl cancelling the IFUP flag is never made in the default 'halt' code on etch, but is in the version compiled from the sources. I noted a sysvinit 'fix' some time ago that claims it turns off 'ifdown' on non-linux systems in halt. I think this version got compiled and wrongly sent out in linux, thus breaking linux WOL depending on the network chip. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18development Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sysvinit depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-36 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 1.14-1 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-36 System-V-like runlevel change mech ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-36 System-V-like utilities sysvinit recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
