Package: upstart
Version: 0.6.3-1
Severity: normal
This problem occurs if you use a kernel without an initramfs. In this
case, booting directly into single user mode or runlevels other than 2
is not possible. I just go straight into runlevel 2 no matter what.
I notice that before the rcS.d scripts are called, I see the error message
cat: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
This is likley happening in /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf:
for ARG in $(cat /proc/cmdline)
do
case "${ARG}" in
-b|emergency)
# Emergency shell
[ -n "${FROM_SINGLE_USER_MODE}" ] || sulogin
;;
[0123456sS])
# Override runlevel
DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL="${ARG}"
;;
-s|single)
# Single user mode
[ -n "${FROM_SINGLE_USER_MODE}" ] || DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=S
;;
esac
done
So it appears that /proc is not mounted or at least fully populated at
this point. Perhaps an initramfs sets this up earlier, but I don't think
we can officially assume it's been done until /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
has been executed, which of course happens shortly after rc-sysinit.conf.
Kevin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (300,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.2003 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages upstart depends on:
ii initscripts 2.87dsf-10 scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii sysv-rc 2.87dsf-10 System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii sysvinit-utils 2.87dsf-10 System-V-like utilities
upstart recommends no packages.
upstart suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
