[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#581704: Bug#581704: sysvinit: Failing to run init script (or ordering problem) after upgrade from startpar to makefile

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Josh Triplett]
> I already used CONCURRENCY=startpar on my system, and it worked
> quite well, but I didn't use CONCURRENCY=makefile because it
> actually boots slower on my system.

Interesting.  I assume there are bugs in some combination of init.d
scripts on your system.  I use CONCURRENCY=makefile on several
systems, and it work for me. :)

> After upgrading, when I rebooted to test the new mechanism, it seems
> that some key init scripts (such as mounting the root filesystem
> read-write and setting the hostname) either didn't run or didn't run
> soon enough; I got a pile of errors about failures to write due to a
> read-only filesystem, and the system stopped at some point and never
> finished booting.  To recover, I had to boot into single-user mode,
> remount the filesystem read-write, and set CONCURRENCY=none in
> /etc/default/rcS.
>
> I've attached pictures taken of the messages shown when booting with
> CONCURRENCY=startpar.

Can you provide the output from /usr/share/insserv/make-testsuite, and
also the content of /var/log/boot after editing /etc/default/bootlogd
to enable bootlogd and rebooting once to record all errors?  Also,
please provide the output from 'ls /etc/rc?.d'.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen