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

[dan-greene at wi.rr.com]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 05:47:39PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> 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.
To clarify, I pressed CTRL-C when I thought I found the bug on Linux. I did not do this
when testing with kFreeBSD. (Also, when I did press CTRL-C on linux, /proc was mounted,
but when booting kFreeBSD, /proc was not.)

> 
> > 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!
> 
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