Hello I'm preparing an NMU of sysvinit, to fix a few bugs. Your bug report is one of these bugs. To reduce the possibility of messing up, I want to ask if you can test the packages I have prepared and verify that it work for you and solve your problem.
The test packages are available from <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/packages/>. To test, download them like this, and install them. for f in initscripts_2.86.ds1-1.1.pere.7_i386.deb \ sysv-rc_2.86.ds1-1.1.pere.7_all.deb \ sysvinit_2.86.ds1-1.1.pere.7_i386.deb ; do \ wget http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/packages/$f ; \ done This is the current changelog: sysvinit (2.86.ds1-1.1.pere.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * Moved all changes to upstream source to debian/patches/, and use dpatch to apply them. * Splitted umountfs in umountfs and umountroot. (Closes: #252059) * Avoid umounting /dev/ in umountfs. (Closes: #287243) * Made sure all init.d scripts handle start or stop argument. (Closes: #326495) * Added GFS file system to list of networked file systems. (Closes: #295094) * Added ocfs2 file system in to list of networked file systems. Patch from Fabio M. Di Nitto and Ubuntu. * Modified pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found. (Closes: #225476) * Merged rcS into rc. (Closes: #326460) * Added trailing newline to the rebooting message, to make sure kernel messages end up on lines of their own during reboot. (Closes: #323749) * Rewrote /etc/mtab handling in mountvirtfs to work with SELinux. (Closes: #270919) * Added init.d script dependency info in LSB format. (Closes: #325933) * Do not fsck when running on battery. Patch from Thom May and Ubuntu. (Closes: #326647) * Updated initscripts to depend on lsb-base, and use the LSB functions in all init.d scripts. Patch from Ubuntu. (Closes: #269774) * Added some support for VERBOSE in checkfs.sh. * Convert french version of update-rc.d(8) from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1. (Closes: #273496) * Make sure urandom pool size is restored on boot. (Closes: #267935) * Make sure binaries are stripped when installed, to avoid lintian warning. * Fix typo in debian/README (seperate->separate). * Modify debian/rules to install Debian changelog for sysv-rc and initscripts as changelog.Debian to keep lintian happy. * Corrected section of mountpoint(1) manual page. * Changed init.d/rc to short-circit stop scripts when switching runlevels. Based on patches from Lukas Eppler and Steven Barker. (Closes: #30659) * Optimize boot speed by enabling the short-circit of start-scripts when switcing from rcS.d to the real runlevel. * Make it easier to override /etc/defaults/rcS parameters. (Closes: #286081) * Updated Standards-Version to 3.6.2.1 (no changes needed). -- Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:00:14 +0200 As you can see, there are quite a few changes, so I want to make sure I did not mess anything up. I've tested the boot on two of my machines, but would like to hear more test reports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
