[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] [Fwd: Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts]

[Thomas Hood]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Please test new sysvinit, sysv-rc, initscripts
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:29:21 +0100
From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg at sztaki.hu>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood at yahoo.co.uk>
CC: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
References: <43A49613.1070100 at yahoo.co.uk>

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> A new version of sysvinit (binary packages sysvinit, sysv-rc and initscripts) has
> just been uploaded to experimental.

Just tried it on amd64.

> After rebooting you should have logs of the fsck runs in /var/log/fsck/check{root,fs}.
> You should have a rotated /var/log/dmesg, and /var/log/boot if you are using bootlogd.

fsck logs are OK, /var/log/dmesg.0 is root:root instead of root:adm.
bottlogd is still broken.

> Please check /etc/motd.  Is this now a symlink to /var/run/motd and are its contents
> correct?

Correct.

> Try switching to runlevel 1.  Does this work as expected?

Did not try it yet.

> Now shut down.  Any problems?

Well, the reboot already used the new scripts and it went OK.

> Boot with INIT_VERBOSE=yes kernel parameter.  Is the boot more verbose?

I'd say yes, but it scrolls too fast, and first fonty then gdm makes
scrollback impossible (and framebuffer with bigger resolution is out of
question because the fglrx driver does not like it).

> Any glitches in any of the messages?

Without a working bootlogd it is hard to tell.

Gabor

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