[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386587: agpgart/i810: xserver will not start

[Jason Dorje Short]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Jason Dorje Short]
>> But why is it not being loaded?  Where is it supposed to be configured 
>> to be loaded?
> 
> This is probably the same as bug #386500.
> 
> Sound to me like some init.d script isn't being executed any more.
> 
> In your case, I believe the problem is that the udev init.d scripts
> are missing in /etc/rcS.d/.  They should look like this:
> 
>   % ls -l /etc/rc*/*udev*
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep  8 11:29 /etc/rcS.d/S03udev -> ../init.d/udev
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep  9 10:33 /etc/rcS.d/S36udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
>   %

The udev scripts actually were there.

> To fix it, please follow the instructions in
> /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/NEWS.Debian.gz for version 2.86.ds1-20 or
> newer. :)
> 
> If it work, please let us know, so we can merge this bug into #386500
> and close it.

Yes, that worked (though with constant input required, the script took 
over 20 hours to run).

-jason