[SM-Discuss] Warning: test grimoire init.d breakage

Jeremy Blosser (emrys) jblosser-smgl at firinn.org
Mon Aug 29 19:23:52 EDT 2005


On Aug 29, Sergey A. Lipnevich [sergey at optimaltec.com] wrote:
> Quoting "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl at firinn.org>:
> 
> > I promise this mail has nothing to do with GPG.
> 
> Me too :-).
> 
> > If you use test grimoire and updated it and recast init.d in the last 24
> > hours, you may have a non-bootable system.  A call to /usr/bin/grep made it
> > into the init system, which won't work for scripts that are called before
> > /usr is mounted.
> 
> Is that what I integrated yesterday? I assumed it was OK because I used this
> code for some time and there was no WIP on it.
> 
> I'm sorry too. I don't have a separate /usr partition that's why it worked.

Yes, it was in that bunch of code.  No one that looked at it noticed,
apparently.  I didn't WIP it because I didn't expect it not to work.  I had
it on systems as well, and they have separate /usr partitions, but I
apparently missed the reboot test.
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