Package: insserv Version: 1.14.0-1 Severity: important Under certain circumstances the kbd init script just hangs during boot. While Ctrl-C fixes this it is a big problem if you restart a remote server only to find out that it is no longer reachable.
Since it only started happening recently I had a look at the problem and found out the following. Needed config to trigger the problem: * run with latest insserv (1.14) version from sid and let it create the bootorder * Boot with either startpar or makefile enabled * Have CONSOLE_FONT set in the config of the kbd package This results in a looping stty wth -ERESTARTSYS which is called in /bin/start_unicode. Commenting CONSOLE_FONT or downgrading insserv to 1.12 and recreating the bootorder with it fixes the problem. So what's the difference between the two created insserv configs. With the old version kbd is started alone S17..... S18kbd S19...... With the new version it is started in parallel with other startup scripts S18kbd S18........ S18........ For some reasons this makes stty just loop. For testing purposes I put the init script on its own level (S21kbd) and it worked. As soon as it was started in parallel with other scripts it hung. It did not matter which scripts ran in parallel. Downgrading insserv to an older binary KEEPING the "broken" config did not work either so I think the problem is older it just did not trigger so far since kdb(stty) always ran alone. Googling for stty -ERESTARTSYS showed that a similar problem exists with bash as well (#547662). So maybe insserv is having the same problem with stty now. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc6 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages insserv depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib insserv recommends no packages. Versions of packages insserv suggests: ii bootchart 0.10~svn407-3.3 Boot process performance analyser -- debconf information: * insserv/enable: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
