[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#387861: initscripts: hwclockfirst.sh should run before checkroot.sh

[Michel Lespinasse]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-15
Severity: normal


I'm having some minor time issues at boot time on a small mipsel system.

I made the following observations about the system:

/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh has a small header indicating hwclockfirst 
should be started. However in /etc/rcS.d, S10checkroot.sh is before
S18hwclockfirst.sh. As a result the root filesystem is checked before
the clock is first adjusted.

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.17        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.39-1      ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.12r-10    Tools for mounting and manipulatin

I should also indicate that hwclockfirst.sh is provided by the 
util-linux package which is currently at version 2.12r-10.

This is a recently installed system (used the etch beta3 installer).

Thanks,