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Bug#3194: keyword "auto" broken in "/etc/init.d/modules"



Chris Hanson writes:
>
> Package: modules
> Version: 1.3.69k-1
>
> The shell script "/etc/init.d/modules" allows the specification of a
> keyword "auto", which means start the kerneld immediately.  This fails
> to work, because the "/etc/init.d/kerneld" script refers to "grep",
> which is not available at that time.

I've changed that to use cd instead. Thanks. The new version (1.3.69k-3)
will be uploaded as soon as I'm back to my stable net connection in my
office. I close this bug report.

> I ran into this problem while attempting to fix another, separately
> reported, bug -- I was trying to get the "serial" module loaded early
> enough to prevent errors when "/etc/rc.boot/0setserial" was run.  I
> assumed that it was the intention that kerneld be running when
> 0setserial was run, so that the module would be available.

This should work. You're right the intention is to allow kerneld to handle
all modules. For instance I let it load all these fat filesystem modules I
need when mounting partitions in fstab.

Michael
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