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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  22     <h3>Entries from May 2010.</h3>
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  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forcing_new_users_to_change_their_password_on_first_login.html">Forcing new users to change their password on first login</a>
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  28       <div class="date">
  29          2nd May 2010
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  31       <div class="body">
  32         <p>One interesting feature in Active Directory, is the ability to
  33 create a new user with an expired password, and thus force the user to
  34 change the password on the first login attempt.</p>
  35
  36 <p>I'm not quite sure how to do that with the LDAP setup in Debian
  37 Edu, but did some initial testing with a local account.  The account
  38 and password aging information is available in /etc/shadow, but
  39 unfortunately, it is not possible to specify an expiration time for
  40 passwords, only a maximum age for passwords.</p>
  41
  42 <p>A freshly created account (using adduser test) will have these
  43 settings in /etc/shadow:</p>
  44
  45 <blockquote><pre>
  46 root@tjener:~# chage -l test
  47 Last password change                                    : May 02, 2010
  48 Password expires                                        : never
  49 Password inactive                                       : never
  50 Account expires                                         : never
  51 Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
  52 Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
  53 Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
  54 root@tjener:~#
  55 </pre></blockquote>
  56
  57 <p>The only way I could come up with to create a user with an expired
  58 account, is to change the date of the last password change to the
  59 lowest value possible (January 1th 1970), and the maximum password age
  60 to the difference in days between that date and today.  To make it
  61 simple, I went for 30 years (30 * 365 = 10950) and January 2th (to
  62 avoid testing if 0 is a valid value).</p>
  63
  64 <p>After using these commands to set it up, it seem to work as
  65 intended:</p>
  66
  67 <blockquote><pre>
  68 root@tjener:~# chage -d 1 test; chage -M 10950 test
  69 root@tjener:~# chage -l test
  70 Last password change                                    : Jan 02, 1970
  71 Password expires                                        : never
  72 Password inactive                                       : never
  73 Account expires                                         : never
  74 Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
  75 Maximum number of days between password change          : 10950
  76 Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
  77 root@tjener:~#
  78 </pre></blockquote>
  79
  80 <p>So far I have tested this with ssh and console, and kdm (in
  81 Squeeze) login, and all ask for a new password before login in the
  82 user (with ssh, I was thrown out and had to log in again).</p>
  83
  84 <p>Perhaps we should set up something similar for Debian Edu, to make
  85 sure only the user itself have the account password?</p>
  86
  87 <p>If you want to comment on or help out with implementing this for
  88 Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
  89
  90 <p>Update 2010-05-02 17:20: Paul Tötterman tells me on IRC that the
  91 shadow(8) page in Debian/testing now state that setting the date of
  92 last password change to zero (0) will force the password to be changed
  93 on the first login.  This was not mentioned in the manual in Lenny, so
  94 I did not notice this in my initial testing.  I have tested it on
  95 Squeeze, and '<tt>chage -d 0 username</tt>' do work there.  I have not
  96 tested it on Lenny yet.</p>
  97
  98 <p>Update 2010-05-02-19:05: Jim Paris tells me via email that an
  99 equivalent command to expire a password is '<tt>passwd -e
 100 username</tt>', which insert zero into the date of the last password
 101 change.</p>
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 107         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 115       <div class="title">
 116         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellizing_the_boot_in_Debian_Squeeze___ready_for_wider_testing.html">Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing</a>
 117       </div>
 118       <div class="date">
 119          6th May 2010
 120       </div>
 121       <div class="body">
 122         <p>These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite
 123 complete, so complete that it is actually possible to run all the
 124 init.d scripts in parallell based on these dependencies.  If you want
 125 to test your Squeeze system, make sure
 126 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot">dependency
 127 based boot sequencing</a> is enabled, and add this line to
 128 /etc/default/rcS:</p>
 129
 130 <blockquote><pre>
 131 CONCURRENCY=makefile
 132 </pre></blockquote>
 133
 134 <p>That is it.  It will cause sysv-rc to use the startpar tool to run
 135 scripts in parallel using the dependency information stored in
 136 /etc/init.d/.depend.boot, /etc/init.d/.depend.start and
 137 /etc/init.d/.depend.stop to order the scripts.  Startpar is configured
 138 to try to start the kdm and gdm scripts as early as possible, and will
 139 start the facilities required by kdm or gdm as early as possible to
 140 make this happen.</p>
 141
 142 <p>Give it a try, and see if you like the result.  If some services
 143 fail to start properly, it is most likely because they have incomplete
 144 init.d script dependencies in their startup script (or some of their
 145 dependent scripts have incomplete dependencies).  Report bugs and get
 146 the package maintainers to fix it. :)</p>
 147
 148 <p>Running scripts in parallel could be the default in Debian when we
 149 manage to get the init.d script dependencies complete and correct.  I
 150 expect we will get there in Squeeze+1, if we get manage to test and
 151 fix the remaining issues.</p>
 152
 153 <p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
 154 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
 155 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
 156 list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p>
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 160
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 162         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 170       <div class="title">
 171         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/systemd__an_interesting_alternative_to_upstart.html">systemd, an interesting alternative to upstart</a>
 172       </div>
 173       <div class="date">
 174         13th May 2010
 175       </div>
 176       <div class="body">
 177         <p>The last few days a new boot system called
 178 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd">systemd</a>
 179 has been
 180 <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">introduced</a>
 181
 182 to the free software world.  I have not yet had time to play around
 183 with it, but it seem to be a very interesting alternative to
 184 <a href="http://upstart.ubuntu.com/">upstart</a>, and might prove to be
 185 a good alternative for Debian when we are able to switch to an event
 186 based boot system.  Tollef is
 187 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/580814">in the process</a> of getting
 188 systemd into Debian, and I look forward to seeing how well it work.  I
 189 like the fact that systemd handles init.d scripts with dependency
 190 information natively, allowing them to run in parallel where upstart
 191 at the moment do not.</p>
 192
 193 <p>Unfortunately do systemd have the same problem as upstart regarding
 194 platform support.  It only work on recent Linux kernels, and also need
 195 some new kernel features enabled to function properly.  This means
 196 kFreeBSD and Hurd ports of Debian will need a port or a different boot
 197 system.  Not sure how that will be handled if systemd proves to be the
 198 way forward.</p>
 199
 200 <p>In the mean time, based on the
 201 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
 202 on debian-devel@</a> regarding parallel booting in Debian, I have
 203 decided to enable full parallel booting as the default in Debian as
 204 soon as possible (probably this weekend or early next week), to see if
 205 there are any remaining serious bugs in the init.d dependencies.  A
 206 new version of the sysvinit package implementing this change is
 207 already in experimental.  If all go well, Squeeze will be released
 208 with parallel booting enabled by default.</p>
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 212
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 214         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 222       <div class="title">
 223         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_MAC_address_of_all_clients.html">Sitesummary tip: Listing MAC address of all clients</a>
 224       </div>
 225       <div class="date">
 226         14th May 2010
 227       </div>
 228       <div class="body">
 229         <p>In the recent Debian Edu versions, the
 230 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary">sitesummary
 231 system</a> is used to keep track of the machines in the school
 232 network.  Each machine will automatically report its status to the
 233 central server after boot and once per night.  The network setup is
 234 also reported, and using this information it is possible to get the
 235 MAC address of all network interfaces in the machines.  This is useful
 236 to update the DHCP configuration.</p>
 237
 238 <p>To give some idea how to use sitesummary, here is a one-liner to
 239 ist all MAC addresses of all machines reporting to sitesummary.  Run
 240 this on the collector host:</p>
 241
 242 <blockquote><pre>
 243 perl -MSiteSummary -e 'for_all_hosts(sub { print join(" ", get_macaddresses(shift)), "\n"; });'
 244 </pre></blockquote>
 245
 246 <p>This will list all MAC addresses assosiated with all machine, one
 247 line per machine and with space between the MAC addresses.</p>
 248
 249 <p>To allow system administrators easier job at adding static DHCP
 250 addresses for hosts, it would be possible to extend this to fetch
 251 machine information from sitesummary and update the DHCP and DNS
 252 tables in LDAP using this information.  Such tool is unfortunately not
 253 written yet.</p>
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 256       <div class="tags">
 257
 258
 259         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary</a>.
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 266     <div class="entry">
 267       <div class="title">
 268         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html">Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable</a>
 269       </div>
 270       <div class="date">
 271         14th May 2010
 272       </div>
 273       <div class="body">
 274         <p>Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
 275 Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing.
 276 Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider than
 277 expected, if I am to believe the
 278 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
 279 on debian-devel@</a>, and I concluded a few days ago to move forward
 280 with the feature this weekend, to give us some time to detect any
 281 remaining problems before Squeeze is frozen.  If serious problems are
 282 detected, it is simple to change the default back to sequential boot.
 283 The upload of the new sysvinit package also activate a new upstream
 284 version.</p>
 285
 286 More information about
 287 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot">dependency
 288 based boot sequencing</a> is available from the Debian wiki.  It is
 289 currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into
 290 problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS:</p>
 291
 292 <blockquote><pre>
 293 CONCURRENCY=none
 294 </pre></blockquote>
 295
 296 <p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
 297 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
 298 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
 299 list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p>
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 303
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 305         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 313       <div class="title">
 314         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html">Pieces of the roaming laptop puzzle in Debian</a>
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 316       <div class="date">
 317         19th May 2010
 318       </div>
 319       <div class="body">
 320         <p>Today, the last piece of the puzzle for roaming laptops in Debian
 321 Edu finally entered the Debian archive.  Today, the new
 322 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-mklocaluser.html">libpam-mklocaluser</a>
 323 package was accepted.  Two days ago, two other pieces was accepted
 324 into unstable.  The
 325 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pam-python.html">pam-python</a>
 326 package needed by libpam-mklocaluser, and the
 327 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sssd.html">sssd</a> package
 328 passed NEW on Monday.  In addition, the
 329 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ccreds.html">libpam-ccreds</a>
 330 package we need is in experimental (version 10-4) since Saturday, and
 331 hopefully will be moved to unstable soon.</p>
 332
 333 <p>This collection of packages allow for two different setups for
 334 roaming laptops.  The traditional setup would be using libpam-ccreds,
 335 nscd and libpam-mklocaluser with LDAP or Kerberos authentication,
 336 which should work out of the box if the configuration changes proposed
 337 for nscd in <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/485282">BTS report
 338 #485282</a> is implemented.  The alternative setup is to use sssd with
 339 libpam-mklocaluser to connect to LDAP or Kerberos and let sssd take
 340 care of the caching of passwords and group information.</p>
 341
 342 <p>I have so far been unable to get sssd to work with the LDAP server
 343 at the University, but suspect the issue is some SSL/GnuTLS related
 344 problem with the server certificate.  I plan to update the Debian
 345 package to version 1.2, which is scheduled for next week, and hope to
 346 find time to make sure the next release will include both the
 347 Debian/Ubuntu specific patches.  Upstream is friendly and responsive,
 348 and I am sure we will find a good solution.</p>
 349
 350 <p>The idea is to set up the roaming laptops to authenticate using
 351 LDAP or Kerberos and create a local user with home directory in /home/
 352 when a usre in LDAP logs in via KDM or GDM for the first time, and
 353 cache the password for offline checking, as well as caching group
 354 memberhips and other relevant LDAP information.  The
 355 libpam-mklocaluser package was created to make sure the local home
 356 directory is in /home/, instead of /site/server/directory/ which would
 357 be the home directory if pam_mkhomedir was used.  To avoid confusion
 358 with support requests and configuration, we do not want local laptops
 359 to have users in a path that is used for the same users home directory
 360 on the home directory servers.</p>
 361
 362 <p>One annoying problem with gdm is that it do not show the PAM
 363 message passed to the user from libpam-mklocaluser when the local user
 364 is created.  Instead gdm simply reject the login with some generic
 365 message.  The message is shown in kdm, ssh and login, so I guess it is
 366 a bug in gdm.  Have not investigated if there is some other message
 367 type that can be used instead to get gdm to also show the message.</p>
 368
 369 <p>If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
 370 please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
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 374
 375
 376         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 383     <div class="entry">
 384       <div class="title">
 385         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html">Magnetstripeinnhold i billetter fra Flytoget og Hurtigruten</a>
 386       </div>
 387       <div class="date">
 388         21st May 2010
 389       </div>
 390       <div class="body">
 391         <p>For en stund tilbake kjøpte jeg en magnetkortleser for å kunne
 392 titte på hva som er skrevet inn på magnetstripene til ulike kort.  Har
 393 ikke hatt tid til å analysere mange kort så langt, men tenkte jeg
 394 skulle dele innholdet på to kort med mine lesere.</p>
 395
 396 <p>For noen dager siden tok jeg flyet til Harstad og Hurtigruten til
 397 Bergen.  Flytoget fra Oslo S til flyplassen ga meg en billett med
 398 magnetstripe.  Påtrykket finner jeg følgende informasjon:</p>
 399
 400 <pre>
 401 Flytoget Airport Express Train
 402
 403 Fra - Til        : Oslo Sentralstasjon
 404 Kategori         : Voksen
 405 Pris             : Nok 170,00
 406 Herav mva. 8,00% : NOK 12,59
 407 Betaling         : Kontant
 408 Til - Fra        : Oslo Lufthavn
 409 Utstedt:         : 08.05.10
 410 Gyldig Fra-Til   : 08.05.10-07.11.10
 411 Billetttype      : Enkeltbillett
 412
 413 102-1015-100508-48382-01-08
 414 </pre>
 415
 416 <p>På selve magnetstripen er innholdet
 417 <tt>;E?+900120011=23250996541068112619257138248441708433322932704083389389062603279671261502492655?</tt>.
 418 Aner ikke hva innholdet representerer, og det er lite overlapp mellom
 419 det jeg ser trykket på billetten og det jeg ser av tegn i
 420 magnetstripen.  Håper det betyr at de bruker kryptografiske metoder
 421 for å gjøre det vanskelig å forfalske billetter.</p>
 422
 423 <p>Den andre billetten er fra Hurtigruten, der jeg mistenker at
 424 strekkoden på fronten er mer brukt enn magnetstripen (det var i hvert
 425 fall den biten vi stakk inn i dørlåsen).</p>
 426
 427 <p>Påtrykket forsiden er følgende:</p>
 428
 429 <pre>
 430 Romnummer 727
 431 Hurtigruten
 432 Midnatsol
 433 Reinholdtsen
 434 Petter
 435 Bookingno: SAX69   0742193
 436 Harstad-Bergen
 437 Dep: 09.05.2010 Arr: 12.05.2010
 438 Lugar fra Risøyhamn
 439 Kost: FRO=4
 440 </pre>
 441
 442 <p>På selve magnetstripen er innholdet
 443 <tt>;1316010007421930=00000000000000000000?+E?</tt>.  Heller ikke her
 444 ser jeg mye korrespondanse mellom påtrykk og magnetstripe.</p>
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 449
 450         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 458       <div class="title">
 459         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html">More flexible firmware handling in debian-installer</a>
 460       </div>
 461       <div class="date">
 462         22nd May 2010
 463       </div>
 464       <div class="body">
 465         <p>After a long break from debian-installer development, I finally
 466 found time today to return to the project.  Having to spend less time
 467 working dependency based boot in debian, as it is almost complete now,
 468 definitely helped freeing some time.</p>
 469
 470 <p>A while back, I ran into a problem while working on Debian Edu.  We
 471 include some firmware packages on the Debian Edu CDs, those needed to
 472 get disk and network controllers working.  Without having these
 473 firmware packages available during installation, it is impossible to
 474 install Debian Edu on the given machine, and because our target group
 475 are non-technical people, asking them to provide firmware packages on
 476 an external medium is a support pain.  Initially, I expected it to be
 477 enough to include the firmware packages on the CD to get
 478 debian-installer to find and use them.  This proved to be wrong.
 479 Next, I hoped it was enough to symlink the relevant firmware packages
 480 to some useful location on the CD (tried /cdrom/ and
 481 /cdrom/firmware/).  This also proved to not work, and at this point I
 482 found time to look at the debian-installer code to figure out what was
 483 going to work.</p>
 484
 485 <p>The firmware loading code is in the hw-detect package, and a closer
 486 look revealed that it would only look for firmware packages outside
 487 the installation media, so the CD was never checked for firmware
 488 packages.  It would only check USB sticks, floppies and other
 489 "external" media devices.  Today I changed it to also look in the
 490 /cdrom/firmware/ directory on the mounted CD or DVD, which should
 491 solve the problem I ran into with Debian edu.  I also changed it to
 492 look in /firmware/, to make sure the installer also find firmware
 493 provided in the initrd when booting the installer via PXE, to allow us
 494 to provide the same feature in the PXE setup included in Debian
 495 Edu.</p>
 496
 497 <p>To make sure firmware deb packages with a license questions are not
 498 activated without asking if the license is accepted, I extended
 499 hw-detect to look for preinst scripts in the firmware packages, and
 500 run these before activating the firmware during installation.  The
 501 license question is asked using debconf in the preinst, so this should
 502 solve the issue for the firmware packages I have looked at so far.</p>
 503
 504 <p>If you want to discuss the details of these features, please
 505 contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.</p>
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 509
 510
 511         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 518     <div class="entry">
 519       <div class="title">
 520         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html">Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing</a>
 521       </div>
 522       <div class="date">
 523         27th May 2010
 524       </div>
 525       <div class="body">
 526         <p>A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing.
 527 The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious
 528 issues are known and should be solved:
 529
 530 <p><ul>
 531
 532 <li>The wicd package seen to
 533 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/508289">break NFS mounting</a> and
 534 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/581586">network setup</a> when
 535 parallel booting is enabled.  No idea why, but the wicd maintainer
 536 seem to be on the case.</li>
 537
 538 <li>The nvidia X driver seem to
 539 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/583312">have a race condition</a>
 540 triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect.  The
 541 maintainer is on the case.</li>
 542
 543 <li>The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot
 544 sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users
 545 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/575080">try to switch back</a> to
 546 sysv-rc.  One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create
 547 /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make
 548 sysv-rc more robust.  Will investigate some more and probably upload a
 549 workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to
 550 sysv-rc get a working shutdown.</li>
 551
 552 </ul></p>
 553
 554 <p>All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem
 555 solvable before Squeeze is released.  In addition to these there are
 556 some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings,
 557 which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.</p>
 558
 559 <p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
 560 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
 561 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
 562 list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p>
 563
 564 <p>Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.</p>
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