[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] sysv-rc: Multiple execution of rc2

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Michael]
> I have some questions:
> 
> (1) What does the '2' in the 'init [2]' entry of the ps output mean ?

It mean the current runlevel is 2.

> (2) Why does udev launch 100 processes ? Is this normal ??

No idea, but probably.  I have been told that udev spawn ~1000
modprobe processes during boot, so 100 do not surprise me.

> (3) What does SELINUX_INIT=YES (in the process environment) mean ?
> Package SeLinux is not installed here!

Not sure, but know the sysvinit package is prepared for SELinux.
Perhaps it is a signal that this is the case?

> (4) When the script had another desing, before, i could see 63 *
> console-kit at boot time. I guess the processes are launched and
> terminated again so quickly that the 'ps' snapshot is variable.

No idea what console-kit is doing during boot.

> I can see some essential services FAIL (syslog, cron and
> xientd). But apparently they are just running later. I suspect it's
> because some redundant init process tries to start them twice.

I agree that this sound likely.

> However, i can not find these FAIL messages in any log in /var/log
> (for example, not with grep -r FAIL *, nor when i grep for the
> service name).

Did you enable bootlogd?  Edit /etc/default/bootlogd.  But as it is
stopped at the end of runlevel 2, only the first invocation of
runlevel 2 would be recorded.

Can you provide the content of /etc/inittab?  Or just the output of
'grep -v '#' /etc/inittab' to ignore comments.

If there is nothing to be found there, I have no idea what is wrong.