[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#595431: Bug#595431: Aborting fsck aborts all scripts in rcS.d

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sven Joachim]
> > I think Ctrl-c should just abort the fsck and continue the boot
> > (this happens here with CONCURRENCY=none in /etc/default/rcS, but I
> > don't have any actual filesystem problems and booted with the
> > forcefsck option).  Anyway, this seems to be a bug in startpar's
> > signal handling, thus reassigning to sysvinit-utils.
> 
> I suspect you are right.

He is.  I've seen it happen to dhclient as well.  I don't know WHAT ^C
killed along with dhclient, but half the initscripts didn't come up
right, and I had to reboot to get a sane system.

> Patches for startpar is most welcome.  Until they appear, I suspect
> the workaround for those that want to be able to use Ctrl-C during
> boot is to disable parallell booting in /etc/default/rcS.

Which means every server, if the admin has any good sense whatsoever.

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  Henrique Holschuh