[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#142424: Bug#142424: Please implement a kindler gentler single-user runlevel

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Mon Jul 27 23:06:19 UTC 2009


On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> An idea occured to me the other day, to make sure single user boots
> actually execute the rc1.d/ scripts.  We could add code like this in a
> script at the end of rcS.d/:
> 
>         for word in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
>                 case "$word" in
>                 S|single)
>                         telinit 1
>                 ;;
>                 esac
>         done
> 
> This way a single user boot would first stop scripts according to
> rc1.d/, and next start sulogin.  This way the last runlevel was 1, and
> exiting single user would send people to runlevel 2 which would start
> everything that was stopped in runlevel 1.
> 
> This again would allow us to get a system that recover properly after
> single user, restarting services that was stopped.  We would need to
> add/move some start scripts from rcS.d/ to rc#.d/, but that make sense
> anyway.

Well, our rc.S does way too much.

I have found myself in need to use the "emergency" mode quite often because
rcS would do *extremey* annoying things such as bringing up the quota
subsystem (ever tried that while md-raid is syncing?)

IMHO, a LOT of the stuff we have in rc.S should be kicked to rc.1.  When
one needs to use the 'emergency' mode outside of a major root filesystem
screwup or massive md-raid/lvm snafu, it means something is not proper.

That reminds me of two issues we have:

1. microcode.ctl is being run too late.  It should run in the initrd, and
failing that, as soon as udev is available.

2. update of kernel parameters (/etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/sysfs.conf) needs to
be applied as soon as possible as well (probably right after the udev
coldplug pass).

That will fix some extremely aggravating failure modes we have.  Should I
open separate bugs for these issues?

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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  Henrique Holschuh





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