Bug#421195: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#421195: bootclean runs too late at startup

[Michael Biebl]

2007/4/27, ZoeP <zoe at zarp.org.uk>:
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> Package: initscripts
> Version: 2.86.ds1-38
> Severity: normal
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> As the bootclean init script runs at S20 some daemons have already started
> and written files to /var/run (especially acpid) which potentially causes
> other things to fail later as suddenly sockets/pidfiles aren't there.
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bootclean does *not* run at S20. It is only called indirectly by
S36mountall-bootclean.sh and S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh in /etc/rcS.d/.

Maybe you created the S20 symlink yourself using a tool like bum or
sysv-rc-conf.

Cheers,
Michael

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