Hello, I think *maybe* I've found a bug in sysvinit but I'd like a sanity check before filing an official bug report on it.
First of all, I am running slink, so please don't berate me for running a stable distribution. If compiling the sysvinit source from potato will help, so be it, but I'm not prepared to fully upgrade at this point. The problem is this: I've got a UPS daemon (mgeupsd, not debianized, but I might work on that if I can get this problem resolved.) It works fine when the power fails: it writes FAIL to /etc/powerstatus and sends SIGPWR to init. init then looks at these lines in inittab: # What to do when the power fails/returns. pf::powerwait:/etc/init.d/powerfail start pn::powerfailnow:/etc/init.d/powerfail now po::powerokwait:/etc/init.d/powerok and runs the appropriate commands to initiate a shutdown in 10 minutes. When the power is restored, mgeupsd writes OK to /etc/powerstatus and sends SIGPWR to init. At this point, init apparently does nothing. The first line of /etc/init.d/powerok calls logger, and checking the system logs, it is seemingly not called. (Note that it originally was "/etc/init.d/powerfail stop" but this wasn't effective either so I changed it a litle in a vain debugging attempt.) This is obviously a problem for me, because if I'm not there to cancel the shutdown, the system goes down every time the power blips (which is frequent around here.) At least it's a graceful shutdown, but still... Now I can't do strace on init, so I can't see exactly what's wrong. I did fiddle with init.c and recompiled sysvinit so that it logs that it did recieve a SIGPWR and notices that the power is now in OK status... in other words, it is correctly reading /etc/powerstatus. However, it does not seem to act on the po:: line in inittab. I'm not sure where to go from here since I can't exactly trace init. It's seemingly not running my powerok script and I don't know how to debug it from here. Does anyone have any suggestions, or thinks I should post this on a different list or something? Clarifications gladly provided. Thanks, Preston Landers
