Re: Init starting twice again

[Loic Prylli <Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr>]

Jason Gunthorpe writes:
 > 
 > On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Loic Prylli wrote:
 > 
 > > There is a new sysvinit alpha deb in master Incoming. It seems to
 > > accept well the telinit u. Hopefully you can upgrade safely from old
 > > ones to this one.
 > 
 > Assuming the 'u' thingy works, can you upgrade the package and have it
 > NO trash the file system or will one more reboot be needed?

I would say now, that you can upgrade from an install done with an old
init (from the 980705 install set for instance), to the newer one
without any reboot (and with no trash).

You have to be very careful to upgrade the sysvinit package before the
libc, (and libc before dpkg).

The bug was encoutered after the re-exec is done. That means even
while upgrading from a buggy init, as long as the new one is OK, the
upgrade should go smoothly. That happened to me, but by security, you
may want to have an experimental confirmation from someone starting
with the same init version than you.

Loic