On Wednesday 31 January 2007 17:11, you wrote: > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 17:10, you wrote: > > On Friday 26 January 2007 19:51, you wrote: > > > [John O'Hagan] > > > > > > > A small annoyance: for a few months now, my etch box stops booting > > > > at a particular point, whereupon I must hit any key, and it then > > > > completes. I am not entirely sure, but I think that the last change > > > > I made was to install insserv. > > > > > > You only mention installing insserv. Did you activate it too? If > > > not, it should not affect the boot at all. Please send the output > > > from "ls /etc/rcS ; ls /etc/rc3" to allow me to guess what might be > > > wrong with the boot. > > > > Hi Petter, > > > > I forgot to mention that I did run insserv. > > > > I must admit that I am only guessing that the issue is related to > > insserv, from the fact that it was activated shortly before the pausing > > began, and that it is a boot-related thing. Perhaps reasonable but > > certainly not conclusive.
[...] Some progress: At some point before installing insserv I had edited /etc/default/rcS to include the line: CONCURRENCY=shell to speed up boot time, which it did without problems until I encountered this pausing issue. Changing it to "startpar" froze the boot very early and Alt+Shift+SysRq was needed. I have used startpar concurrency in the past without problems, too. Changing the value to "none" meant that booting no longer paused. This was reproducible. One possible explanation of this could be that these concurrency modes are incompatible with insserv, or with something else on my system which first occurred around the same time I installed insserv. Whatever the deeper cause, my particular little problem is solved. Thanks and regards, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
