comments on insserv

[Michael Biebl]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
>>>> 3.) console-setup is not started after console-screen.sh anymore.
>>>> I installed console-setup to configure my console font and keyboard
>>>> layout. In the old init sequence, console-screen.sh was run at S48,
>>>> console-setup S49.
>>>> Now console-setup is S19, console-screen.sh S20, so my changes get reset
>>>> by console-screen.sh again.
>>>> => I'd say console-setup should be fixed to run after console-screen.sh
>>>> Again, I'll leave it up to you to file a bug report and request the
>>>> correct action (as I don't really know what's the right thing to do).
>>> Sound like a dependency bug.  Not sure how it is best solve.  Two
>>> options are to let console-setup depend on console-screen.sh, or to
>>> let console-screen.sh reverse depend on console-setup.  I do not know
>>> the packages, so I am not sure which of these are "best". :)
>> You mean a
>>    Should-Start: console-screen.sh
>> in console-setup or alternatively a
>>    X-Start-Before: console-setup
>> in console-screen.sh?
>>
>> Does insserv support X-Start-Before?
> 
> Found more issues:
> /etc/init.d/keyboard-setup
> # Provides:          keyboard-setup
> # Required-Start:    mountkernfs udev
> # Required-Stop:
> # X-Start-Before:    checkroot
>                       ^^^^^^^^^
> It is not started before checkroot though! Does that mean X-Start-Before 
> is not supported?

Please forget what I said. keyboard-setup *is* run before checkroot.sh. 
I probably confused it with console-setup...

I made a few modifications (attached as console.patch), as I think this 
makes the boot sequence more correct. Feel free to use it.

Cheers,
Michael

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