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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

I thought I might forward this onto the discussion.  The major issue 
with simpleinit-msb on newer kernels has now been isolated (not that 
there aren't still minor issues).  :)

A lot of people helped contribute to fixing this bug.  I'd like to thank 
them all, including David Kowis, Jeremy Blosser, Andrew Stitt, Juuso 
Alasuutari, David Brown, George Sherwood, and Arwed v. Merkatz.

Excellent example of teamwork.

Seth

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Date: 28 Feb 2007 21:31:51 -0000
From: bugzilla-daemon AT bugs.sourcemage.org
To: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
Subject: [Bug 13114] simpleinit doesn't show output of stopping services on 
recent kernels
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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13114


v.merkatz AT gmx.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Summary|simpleinit doesn't stop     |simpleinit doesn't show
                   |services during shutdown on |output of stopping services
                   |recent kernels              |on recent kernels
               Flag|                            |integrate, to, stable,
                   |                            |grimoire?, fixed, in,
                   |                            |lesser, branch+




------- Additional Comments From v.merkatz AT gmx.net  2007-02-28 15:31 -------
So ... I took the next step :)
The fact that initctl -r -f reproduced the problem indicated the code area 
where
it's happening. The whole thing is actually quite simple, though I'm not sure
what changed in the kernel and/or glibc that made it fail now when it worked
earlier.
Basically, the code opened /dev/console for stdin, stdout and stderr. The
problem is, that it didn't actually close the existing stdin, stdout and 
stderr
first. So the messages got to whatever stdout was at that time. This 
apparently
changed in some (not so) recent kernel or glibc upgrade, which caused the 
breakage.
git commit 5ed4665d40b9da21e4e1291329022fd0f3899141.

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