[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#535551: initscripts: skeleton init script completely silent if kernel invoked with quiet option

[Marc Haber]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-62
Severity: minor

Hi,

I usually boot my kernel with a "quiet" command line since I don't
want the system to spew screenfuls of init messages before the splash
screen takes over. This, as a - surprising - side effect causes
/lib/init/vars.sh to set the VERBOSE environment variable which in
turn causes an init script based on /etc/init.d/skeleton to totally
silence itself. This comes as a surprise.

IMO, the wish to have a noiseless system start does not include the
wish that an init script which may be invoked from the command line
days later does not give any feedback about its operation.

Please consider returning the skeleton init script to the behavior
that is common for init scripts, which is not honoring a VERBOSE
environment variable to switch off the log_foo calls.

Greetings
Marc