Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-38 Severity: normal
This is complicated; please bear with me. If I boot from cold to runlevel 2, everything is fine; runlevel reports "N 2" as expected. If I boot from cold to runlevel 1 (to monkey around as root), runlevel reports "1 S", where I'd expect "N 1" or "S 1". If I then proceed to runlevel 2, portmap is not launched from rc2.d, and NIS and NFS (amongst other things) break in spectacular ways. If instead I hand-launch portmap at runlevel 1, then proceed to runlevel 2, the remainder of the boot succeeds, and runlevel reports "S 2". I deduce that portmap is being launched from rcS.d, then killed from rc1.d; then /etc/init.d/rc sees "S 2" reported by runlevel, finds rcS.d/S43portmap rather than rc1.d/K81portmap, thinks portmap must be running already, and refuses to launch it. I can kludge round this by renaming rcS.d/S43portmap to rcS.d/S43portmap0, but now I've looked closer, it would appear that the underlying bug is in runlevel, or wherever it gets its information from. The bug in runlevel is there in sarge, but didn't matter as its /etc/init.d/rc wasn't so picky. But then again, I'm aware changing what runlevel reports may break other things. Feel free to reassign this to portmap. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages sysvinit depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-38 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii libsepol1 1.14-2 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like runlevel change mech ii sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like utilities sysvinit recommends no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
