[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#444980: udev not restarted after exiting runlevel 1

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Marco d'Itri]
> I do not believe that the best fix for this bug should happen in the
> udev package.

Can you explain why you do not believe the fix should happen in udev?

Personally, I believe the best solution would be to add a simpler
script in runlevels 2 to 5 to restart udev if it was stopped in
runlevel 1, and only use the existing udev script with a lot of extra
stuff going on in rcS.d/.

I guess the design question that need to be decided, is if udev should
be running in runlevel 1 or not, and that again depend on the
understanding of what runlevel 1 should be.  In my head, runlevel 1
should give the sysadmin a system without any daemons running, to be
able to edit files and partitions without having any processes
blocking the work.

> A simple fix could be something like:
> 
> DONTKILL=$(for p in $(pgrep udev); do echo "-o $p"; done)
> killall5 $DONTKILL
> 
> Feel free to close this bug if you do not want to modify initscripts.

I am not very fond of special casing for individual packages in the
initscripts package, and very reluctant to add such code in
init.d/killprocs.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen