[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#553338: sysvinit: display manager started before interactive initscripts

[Jonas Meurer]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.87dsf-8
Severity: important

hello,

the startpar patch 05_pri_kdm_gdm.patch added in sysvinit 2.87dsf-7
seems to introduce a new bug: the display manager (gdm on this machine)
now is started before scripts that are marked as interactive.

interactive scripts cause the boot process to hang forever if no input
is submitted.

display managers make the boot screen disappear, and many users never
change back to tty1 afterwards. that way they don't recognize that user
input is required in order to finish the boot process.

in my situation, openvpn is started after gdm. openvpn requests a
passphrase in order to unlock a private key. my mailserver (exim4) is
started even after openvn. in case that i miss to change back to tty1
and enter the passphrase for openvpn, my mailserver is never started and
that way my outgoing mail is not sent.

greetings,
 jonas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64-resivo (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts                   2.87dsf-8  scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-3   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.88-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                     2.0.39-1   SELinux library for manipulating b
ii  sysv-rc                       2.87dsf-8  System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.87dsf-8  System-V-like utilities

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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