On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:46:49AM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the url to lfs-bootscripts is invalid:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/8.2.rc1/lfs-bootscripts-2
> 0170626.tar.bz2
> should be
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/8.2-rc1/lfs-bootscripts-2
> 0170626.tar.bz2
> (note the dot instead a dash in 8.2.rc1)
>
> The md5 checksum of the bootscript package has changed but name is
> still the same. Even a diff shows no difference. I assume that the
> package has been recreated and some bytes in the bz2 itself did change.
> I'd recomment to not recreated the tarball (if that is the reason for
> chksum change) when creating a tag - recreate the bz2 only when changes
> has been made in the scripts.
>
Somebody raised this a few weeks ago: apparently the bootscripts
have been regenerated daily (if I remember correctly) for quite a
long time - with only one complaint, he wasn't motivated to change
things.
> Apropos bootscripts. Recenty i sent over a patch to not kill mdmon
> process when shutdown. Does this still has no chance to get into the
> package? In case one is using fakeraid, the surrent bootscripts will
> leave the array dirty every time system shuts down (causing recovery
> the next time system boots) because mdmon gets killed to early...
>
> --
> Thomas
> diff -Naur lfs-bootscripts-20170626.orig/lfs/init.d/mountfs
> lfs-bootscripts-20170626/lfs/init.d/mountfs
> --- lfs-bootscripts-20170626.orig/lfs/init.d/mountfs 2017-08-18
> 20:41:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ lfs-bootscripts-20170626/lfs/init.d/mountfs 2017-11-26
> 05:48:08.618518870 +0100
> @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@
> # Make all LVM volume groups unavailable, if appropriate
> # This fails if swap or / are on an LVM partition
> #if [ -x /sbin/vgchange ]; then /sbin/vgchange -an > /dev/null; fi
> +
> + if [ -n "$(pidof mdmon)" ]; then
> + # No longer possible to write to bootlog. Use "echo".
> + echo -n " Wait for clean array ... "
> + /sbin/mdadm --wait-clean --scan
> + echo "rc=$?"
> + fi
> ;;
>
> *)
> diff -Naur lfs-bootscripts-20170626.orig/lfs/init.d/sendsignals
> lfs-bootscripts-20170626/lfs/init.d/sendsignals
> --- lfs-bootscripts-20170626.orig/lfs/init.d/sendsignals 2017-08-18
> 20:41:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ lfs-bootscripts-20170626/lfs/init.d/sendsignals 2017-11-26
> 05:48:08.671852575 +0100
> @@ -29,8 +29,11 @@
>
> case "${1}" in
> stop)
> + omit=$(pidof mdmon)
> + [ -n "$omit" ] && omit="-o $omit"
> +
> log_info_msg "Sending all processes the TERM signal..."
> - killall5 -15
> + killall5 -15 $omit
> error_value=${?}
>
> sleep ${KILLDELAY}
> @@ -42,7 +45,7 @@
> fi
>
> log_info_msg "Sending all processes the KILL signal..."
> - killall5 -9
> + killall5 -9 $omit
> error_value=${?}
>
> sleep ${KILLDELAY}
I think fakeraid, whatever that may be (I haven't searched for it) is
uncommon (raid itself is not exactly common among LFS/BLFS users).
I'm sure it's worth your time to press this if people commonly use
it.
ĸen
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