[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#490893: Could the portmap issue be caused by the missing K??portmap symlink

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-09-26 23:08 +0200, Joerg Schuetter wrote:

> Could the portmap issue be caused by the missing K??portmap symlink
> in rc1.d? By running "update-rc.d -f portmap remove" and then the command 
> "update-rc.d portmap start 43 S . start 32 0 6 . stop 81 1 ."
> from the postinst-file the required stop script is in rc1.d.

Note the bug report is about runlevel 0, not 1.  "Start" scripts in
runlevel 0 and 6 are special, they are called with a stop argument.

> To prevent tampering to much with these links it could be split up in
> for single steps. This makes sure the link in rc1.d will be created even
> if the creation of the other links failed (since already existing with a
> different strt number). In my "grown" system I already had a few links to
> portmap, so it was not possible to add new ones.

If in any runlevel a link already exists, update-rc.d will not create
new ones, true.  That ensures local modifications are preserved.  This
does not explain why portmap isn't stopped _despite_ the link in
runlevel 0 exists.

Sven