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Re: Wrong placing of ..bin/dirname



Package: kbd
Version: 0.96a-8
Severity: important

Previously Michael Beattie wrote:
> /etc/init.d/rcS calls dirname before other filesystems have been mounted,
> and my usr partition is one of those other filesystems.

Actually /etc/init.d/rcS call all scripts in /etc/rcS.d . On of the
things called is keymaps.sh, which uses dirname. And since /usr is
not mounted at that point (mountall.sh is called much later) this
will probably fail.

So this is a release-critical bug..

Wichert.

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