On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:14:28AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16:07AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > > I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting, > > local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to > > runlevel 3. > > > > A couple thing here. > > > > rc-status shows /etc/init.d/local as part of the _default_ runlevel. > > > > /etc/init.d/local stop - warns about shutting a boot service. This > > warning only happens the first time it is stopped after a reboot. > > Subsequent stops and starts produce no warnings. > > > > It looks to me like _local_ is for some reason being started earlier > > than it should, or my understanding of the boot process is limited. > > > OK, I may have found the answer here, which I'll verify tonight when I > get home and can watch a reboot. > > /etc/init.d/local needsme > > showed that /etc/init.d/splash was dependent on local. splash was in the > boot runlevel, although I haven't used splash for a few months now, and > obviously forgot to remove it. I am pretty sure this will solve my > problem. > Well damn. Removing /etc/init.d/splash from the boot runlevel did in fact cause /etc/init.d/local to run as the last initscript, just like it's supposed to. But it didn't solve the problem of mutt segfaulting when called here.
I took Neil's advice and emerged mailx. All is well again in gentooland. (I'd sure like to know why mutt didn't work in local.start, though) Thanks for all the help, John -- If voting could change anything, it would be illegal
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