Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread Michael Meskes
With just “aptitude install chrony”, the “starting” step took a very long while, several minutes before doing anything. People might (quite rightfully) consider it hung, and interrupt the package installation/upgrade, which then leaves the package management system in a bad state. That's

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Helmut Grohne [EMAIL PROTECTED] (06/11/2008): Did you notice that the bug was reported on i386 initially? So it is even a bit cross-architecture. Sure, but I wasn't going to emphasize something that I didn't experience personally. ;) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread John Hasler
Cyril writes: All of the boxes in my company are. Too bad I can't test on more systems. That's quite different from “a single system”. And it's not like amd64 is an obscure architecture, last time I checked. It works fine on amd64 here as well as on two different i386 boxes. It has to do with

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread John Hasler
Michael writes: I beg to disagree because this bug seems to hit only some systems but not all. Of course I agree that this is bad if your system is hit, but with a lot of systm not being hit I do not consider this release critical. Aynway, the best solution is to fix this, if it is fixable

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (06/11/2008): I beg to disagree because this bug seems to hit only some systems but not all. I didn't upgrade to grave, only to serious. Of course I agree that this is bad if your system is hit, but with a lot of system not being hit I do not consider this

Bug#504000: chrony: init script hangs for a while might break

2008-11-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
All of the boxes in my company are. Too bad I can't test on more systems. That's quite different from ???a single system???. And it's not like amd64 is an obscure architecture, last time I checked. Did you notice that the bug was reported on i386 initially? So it is even a bit