Re: Bug#49816: sysvinit shouldn't remove /var/run/dhcpcd-*.pid at startup

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

According to arto.astala@nokia.com:
> The original bug report says:
>   Since `dhcpcd' is executed at startup
>   (in /etc/init.d/dhcpcd or /etc/init.d/networking) before
>   /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, these files are removed
>   during bootmisc.sh.
> So the problem is that perfectly valid startup of dhcpcd
> is later screwed up by bootmisc.sh which deletes the pid
> file(s). Either the order is wrong or bootmisc.sh should
> not delete the pid files (when dhcpcd is running).

No. bootmisc.sh has run at S55 from day one. Then along
comes dhcpcd and puts its startup file before that. That is
not a bug in sysvinit.

bootmisc.sh cannot run before networking is set up because
/usr and/or /var might be mounted on an NFS filesystem, and
the network needs to be up for that.

I'm not fixing any bugs in the dhcpcd package by hacking around in
the sysvinit package. Fix dhcpcd instead.

> (in future you may want to cc: the BTS even for mails like
> this, it ensures that all info is recorded there)

I never delete Cc:'s, but I've added one now.

Mike.
-- 
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.