Re: Booting stops [SOLVED]

[John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au>]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:12, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:00:29PM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > A small annoyance: for a few months now, my etch box stops booting at a
> > particular point, whereupon I must hit return, and it then completes. I
> > am not entirely sure, but I think that the last change I made was to
> > install insserv, the parallel booting service.
>
[...]
> I suspect as insserv is not-ready-for-prime-time, that this is the
> issue. I'd check for any bug repots on the BTS at
> bugs.debian.org/insserv and if nothing look like your bug, file one with
> reportbug. 



I did file a bug, and the pausing was solved by changing a line 
in /etc/default/rcS from

CONCURRENCY=shell

to

CONCURRENCY=none

If I changed it to the other possible value of "startpar", booting stalled 
altogether.

I'm only guessing here, but as both forms of boot-script concurrency have 
worked for me in the past, perhaps having them set here is incompatible with 
insserv?

Regards,

John