2010-05-27 23:55
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+ 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: + +
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- The wicd package seen to +break NFS mounting and +network setup when +parallel booting is enabled. No idea why, but the wicd maintainer +seem to be on the case. + +
- The nvidia X driver seem to +have a race condition +triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect. The +maintainer is on the case. + +
- The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot +sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users +try to switch back 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. + +
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.
+ +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 +the +list of usertagged bugs related to this.
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