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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">What should start from /etc/rcS.d/ in Debian? - almost nothing</div>
  24       <div class="date">30th July 2011</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>In the Debian boot system, several packages include scripts that
  26 are started from /etc/rcS.d/.  In fact, there is a bite more of them
  27 than make sense, and this causes a few problems.  What kind of
  28 problems, you might ask.  There are at least two problems.  The first
  29 is that it is not possible to recover a machine after switching to
  30 runlevel 1.  One need to actually reboot to get the machine back to
  31 the expected state.  The other is that single user boot will sometimes
  32 run into problems because some of the subsystems are activated before
  33 the root login is presented, causing problems when trying to recover a
  34 machine from a problem in that subsystem.  A minor additional point is
  35 that moving more scripts out of rcS.d/ and into the other rc#.d/
  36 directories will increase the amount of scripts that can run in
  37 parallel during boot, and thus decrease the boot time.</p>
  38
  39 <p>So, which scripts should start from rcS.d/.  In short, only the
  40 scripts that _have_ to execute before the root login prompt is
  41 presented during a single user boot should go there.  Everything else
  42 should go into the numeric runlevels.  This means things like
  43 lm-sensors, fuse and x11-common should not run from rcS.d, but from
  44 the numeric runlevels.  Today in Debian, there are around 115 init.d
  45 scripts that are started from rcS.d/, and most of them should be moved
  46 out.  Do your package have one of them?  Please help us make single
  47 user and runlevel 1 better by moving it.</p>
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  49 <p>Scripts setting up the screen, keyboard, system partitions
  50 etc. should still be started from rcS.d/, but there is for example no
  51 need to have the network enabled before the single user login prompt
  52 is presented.</p>
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  54 <p>As always, things are not so easy to fix as they sound.  To keep
  55 Debian systems working while scripts migrate and during upgrades, the
  56 scripts need to be moved from rcS.d/ to rc2.d/ in reverse dependency
  57 order, ie the scripts that nothing in rcS.d/ depend on can be moved,
  58 and the next ones can only be moved when their dependencies have been
  59 moved first.  This migration must be done sequentially while we ensure
  60 that the package system upgrade packages in the right order to keep
  61 the system state correct.  This will require some coordination when it
  62 comes to network related packages, but most of the packages with
  63 scripts that should migrate do not have anything in rcS.d/ depending
  64 on them.  Some packages have already been updated, like the sudo
  65 package, while others are still left to do.  I wish I had time to work
  66 on this myself, but real live constrains make it unlikely that I will
  67 find time to push this forward.</p>
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