[PKG-OpenRC-Debian] Bug#758480: about bug #758480: openrc

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 10:34 -0500, dan-greene at wi.rr.com wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:44:57PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just saw that bug #758480 is not related to udev (or openrc for
> > Linux). (The only issue for Linux would be to allow CTRL-C to be pressed
> > during boot)
> > 
> > Since you have problems also with kFreeBSD, does the system boot
> > properly in read-write mode, except /proc not being mounted? You also
> > reported that openrc hangs during shutdown. I'll try to find out what's
> > going wrong with a test image under kvm.
> 
> It does not boot properly. The filesystem is mounted read-only.

Do you press CTRL-C during the boot? As written by Adam Borowski, this
is a feature (and I agree) but maybe not recommended if you are not
experienced.

> Manually entering the command "mount -a" will fix the problem until the
> next boot (although openrc still segfaults on reboot).

See above.

> By the way, installing kFreeBSD jessie at this point is tricky because
> of other bugs.
> * The beta installer CD has multiple bugs that are mentioned in the
> release notes.
> * dist-upgrading from wheezy will remove the old kernel without
> installing a replacement (#756464), so you need to manually install
> kfreebsd-image-10 or else the systrm will fail to boot.

This is nasty indeed!

> * apt in jessie is extremely slow, but apt in experimental is ok

I've seen that, it's almost unusable. The bug on that was closed, it
should be reopened again. When is the one in experimental hitting
unstable?

> > As you know, due to this bug openrc will be removed from debian/testing
> > on the 19th this month. Can you consider changing the bug title and
> > lower the severity to important to avoid this, while we are
> > investigating? If OK: I can do this for you.
>  It's OK to reduce the severity, expecially since this bug only affects
> kFreeBSD, not Linux. Could you do it for me?

Already done by Adam Borowski, thanks Adam!