[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#595481: on shutdown, the initscripts don't print newlines

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

reassign 595481 sysvinit-utils
found 595481 2.88dsf-12
thanks

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]
> Not sure whether this is really in initscripts, because I guess all
> init-scripts are affected.

Sound to me like you see the effect of parallel booting using startpar
from sysvinit-utils on a slow machine.

startpar wait a while for lines to complete before passing them to the
console, and if the scripts use a long time to print a complete line,
you will see the effect described.

Not quite sure if it is a bug, as it is a consequence of the the
design tradeoff in startpar.  One could reduce the problem by
increasing the timeout, but it will always exist.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen