X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/de1e94712dc921410b333894da192649f6a29ce9..db926938dbbd0f742774718da99bae88fcb27a57:/blog/archive/2010/05/05.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/05/05.rss b/blog/archive/2010/05/05.rss index 94a9c4b410..d87d1065d7 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2010/05/05.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2010/05/05.rss @@ -412,5 +412,53 @@ contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.</p> + + Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html + Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:00 +0200 + +<p>A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing. +The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious +issues are known and should be solved: + +<p><ul> + +<li>The wicd package seen to +<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/508289">break NFS mounting</a> and +<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/581586">network setup</a> when +parallel booting is enabled. No idea why, but the wicd maintainer +seem to be on the case.</li> + +<li>The nvidia X driver seem to +<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/583312">have a race condition</a> +triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect. The +maintainer is on the case.</li> + +<li>The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot +sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users +<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/575080">try to switch back</a> to +sysv-rc. One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create +/etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make +sysv-rc more robust. Will investigate some more and probably upload a +workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to +sysv-rc get a working shutdown.</li> + +</ul></p> + +<p>All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem +solvable before Squeeze is released. In addition to these there are +some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings, +which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.</p> + +<p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to +the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at +<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the +list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p> + +<p>Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.</p> + + +