Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in +Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing. +Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider than +expected, if I am to believe the +input +on debian-devel@, and I concluded a few days ago to move forward +with the feature this weekend, to give us some time to detect any +remaining problems before Squeeze is frozen. If serious problems are +detected, it is simple to change the default back to sequential boot. +The upload of the new sysvinit package also activate a new upstream +version.
+ +More information about +dependency +based boot sequencing is available from the Debian wiki. It is +currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into +problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS: + ++ ++CONCURRENCY=none +
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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