[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#734901: Bug#734901: initscripts: More Proper Detection of "fastboot" Kernel Parameter necessary

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

severity 734901 grave
found 734901 sysvinit/2.88dsf-13
notfound 734901 sysvinit/2.88dsf-45
thanks

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Sebastian.Steinhuber wrote:
> during boot, Debian forces checking of hard disks/partitions, what is IMHO an
> important thing to do. Since fsck during boot is not performed due to the
> "i915.fastboot=1" kernel parameter, it seems adequate to set a higher
> importance
> to the issue, feel free to change that, but not running fsck might cause
> serious
> data loss.

Indeed.  Severity grave it is, for now.

Note that this is a VERY old bug, which was exposed by new kernel
conventions (well, not so new...  the use of <driver>.<parameter> has been
around for a while, but i915.fastboot, which triggers the bug, is quite
recent).

I will set the BTS bug information to an arbitrarily old version of
initscripts that also covers oldstable (the bug was already in place in
2009).

All other uses of "grep -w" to check the kernel command line are likewise
buggy, and could use some pro-active fixing.  Another collision is just a
matter of time...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh