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Re: Faure upgrade



On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Then for some -insane- reason when libc6 was upgraded init decided to
> > start running fsck on the MOUNTED! disks, needless to say we narrowly
> > escaped massive file system corruption by rebooting.. Aynone know whats up
> > here?
> 
> Please refer to debian-devel and linux-kernel where Miquel S. continousely
> explains that 'init u' re-exec's the current init.  A feature that is used 
> in some debian postinst file and also a feature that is not known for older
> sysvinit programs.  I'm pretty sure you run into this trap.

Shows how much debian-devel I read :P This is a really bad trap too..
 
> > And my final gripe, apt Aborts() when you do update, why didn't
> > someone tell me! :>
> 
> Maybe nobody else was so insane to upgrade faure? :)

They said it was safe! ;>

Jason


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