Loops involving virtual facilities ignored?

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 04:31:21PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hi, Werner.  I just got a report about a init.d script dependency loop
> in Debian which apparenly is only a problem some times with insserv.
> 
> Check out <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/554905> for the details.
> 
> I've tried to reproduce the problem with this testsuite fragment, with
> a loop between mdadm -> mountall -> hibernate-cleanup -> mdadm.  Why
> do insserv not fail to accept this configuration?

Q: Does this happen with latest version from savannah.nongnu.org?

> test_undetected_loop() {
> set +C
> cat <<'EOF' > $insconf
> $local_fs       mountall
> EOF
> set -C
> 
> insertscript hibernate <<EOF
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides:          hibernate-cleanup
> # Default-Start:     S
> # Default-Stop:
> # Required-Start:
> # Required-Stop:
> # Should-Start:      udev devfsd raid2 mdadm lvm evms cryptdisks
> # X-Start-Before:    mountall
> ### END INIT INFO
> EOF
> 
> insertscript mountall.sh <<EOF
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides:          mountall
> # Required-Start:
> # Required-Stop:
> # Default-Start:     S
> # Default-Stop:
> # Short-Description: Mount all filesystems.
> ### END INIT INFO
> EOF
> 
> insertscript mdadm <<EOF
> ### BEGIN INIT INFO
> # Provides:          mdadm
> # Required-Start:    $local_fs
> # Required-Stop:     $local_fs
> # Default-Start:     S 2 3 4 5
> # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
> ### END INIT INFO
> EOF
> 
> echo $insconf
> cat $insconf
> list_rclinks
> }

     Werner

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