Received this a while ago, just saw it wasn't in the bug report. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bug#497406: can hang for long time at boot] Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:26:58 +0100 From: Jeroen Massar <jer...@sixxs.net>
Reinier Haasjes wrote: [..] > It seems that aiccu does not background itself until after it's gotten a > connection, or given up. Daemons should abort when something is broken. AICCU does this correctly. Unfortunately there are people like the MacPorts folks who then decide to put AICCU inside a loop and retry forever, causing TIC servers to be hit at a very high rate. > Normally, this does not cause a long delay. My > laptop is offline right now, and when I try to start aiccu, it takes it > only 20 seconds to fail to start. Then don't start AICCU when you know it is offline. Fix your init scripts/dependencies to resolve that. > I think that sixxs is down (can't get to their website etc). Where is a traceroute v4 optionally v6, etc? Also note that tic.sixxs.net is distributed in nature thus 'down' is a very very rare phenomenon. [..] > For systems where nothing in the boot process depends on a functional > ipv6 network, I'd really like to be able to configure aiccu to start > entirely in the background, avoiding any unpredictabe delays of this > sort. Fix your init script and append a '&' presto. Greets, Jeroen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
