[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#609959: initscripts: "too many loops!" when bootlogd is enable

[Francis Russell]

So, I took a look at the sysvinit source and the true problem appears to
be that loop checking the the dependency makefile parser is hideously
inefficient. It has a built in check for when loop-checking is doing too
much work then bails out. This is what's getting triggered.

This is clearly a known problem since there's already a Debian patch in
the package that increases the number of checks that the loop-checker is
allowed to do by 100x.

Francis