[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#588666: boot message stuck onto next message

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

X-debbugs-Cc: smartmontools at packages.debian.org
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-11
Severity: wishlist

smartmontools is the only package that makes such mashed together ...

# zgrep -nHi start.*start boot*
boot:40:Sun Jul 11 06:26:35 2010: Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartdStarting Network connection manager: wicd.
boot.0:42:Sat Jul 10 06:53:12 2010: Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartdStarting Network connection manager: wicd.
boot.1.gz:42:Fri Jul  9 19:53:12 2010: Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartdStarting Network connection manager: wicd.
boot.2.gz:42:Fri Jul  9 10:14:35 2010: Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartdStarting Network connection manager: wicd.

... log lines during boot, consistently. They are all followed by a line with
just a dot,

Sun Jul 11 06:26:35 2010: Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartdStarting Network connection manager: wicd.
Sun Jul 11 06:26:43 2010: .
Sun Jul 11 06:26:43 2010: Starting HTTP cache proxy server: wwwoffled wwwoffled[1686] Information: Read in 0 trusted certifi

I don't understand the problem, as wicd and smartmontools both just seem
to use the standard log_daemon_msg in /etc/init.d/* .

Maybe it is a parallelism issue,

# find /etc/rc??? -name S*smart*
/etc/rc2.d/S02smartmontools
/etc/rc3.d/S02smartmontools
/etc/rc4.d/S02smartmontools
/etc/rc5.d/S02smartmontools
# find /etc/rc??? -name S*wicd\*
/etc/rc2.d/S03wicd
/etc/rc3.d/S03wicd
/etc/rc4.d/S03wicd
/etc/rc5.d/S03wicd
etc. etc.