On Sb, 19 iul 14, 18:06:57, Tom H wrote: > > If he didn't improve sysvinit to deal with the early boot problem that > he identifies here, he must've either thought that it wasn't possible > to fix the sysvinit code or that he didn't have the time to dedicate > to doing so. Just to provide concrete evidence: mpd will fail to start on reboot because all it's files are (on purpose) on a NFS mount. Excerpt from my /var/log/boot: Sun Jul 20 13:07:37 2014: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Sun Jul 20 13:07:37 2014: [^[[36minfo^[[39;49m] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2. Sun Jul 20 13:07:38 2014: [....] Starting rpcbind daemon...[....] Already running.^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:38 2014: [....] Starting NFS common utilities: statd idmapd^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:38 2014: [....] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:39 2014: [....] Starting bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:40 2014: [....] Starting system message bus: dbus^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:40 2014: Starting nginx: nginx. Sun Jul 20 13:07:40 2014: [....] Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:41 2014: [....] Starting NTP server: ntpd^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:41 2014: [....] Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:43 2014: [....] Starting periodic command scheduler: cron^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[32m ok ^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c. Sun Jul 20 13:07:43 2014: sed: can't read /media/nfs/xbig/audio/music/.mpd/mpd.nfs.conf: No such file or directory Sun Jul 20 13:07:43 2014: sed: can't read /media/nfs/xbig/audio/music/.mpd/mpd.nfs.conf: No such file or directory Sun Jul 20 13:07:43 2014: [....] Starting Music Player Daemon: mpd[....] /media/nfs/xbig/audio/music/.mpd/mpd.nfs.conf must have db_file and pid_file set; cannot start daemon. ...^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[31mFAIL^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c ^[[31mfailed!^[[39;49m Of course, /etc/init.d/mpd has: # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs The NFS share is mounted in /etc/fstab with: nfs.nuvreauspam:/xbig /media/nfs/xbig nfs noatime,nofail,_netdev Result: nfs.nuvreauspam:/xbig on /media/nfs/xbig type nfs4 (rw,noatime,vers=4.0,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.1.14,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.1.8,_netdev) Strangely this used to work at some point in time, I don't even know what broke it. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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