[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#583312: Bug#583312: possible fix

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Romane]
> Changed the S17nvidia-glx to S7nvidia-glx, and the beastie booted up to 
> a login screen no problems, and at about the same speed (give or take) 
> as before the installation of the initscripts and sysv... stuff yesterday.

As far as I know, changing the sequence number of a script will not
affect parallel booting.  Did you use S7nvidia-glx or S07nvidia-glx?
If the former, I suspect this caused the script to not run at all
during boot.  I suspect there is some race issue causing some but not
all boots to fail.

Btw, what is the name of the package providing /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx
on your machine (dpkg -S /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx).

> Now, this is not optimal - some update at some time in the future
> will again reorder the scripts, and the problem is very likely to
> repeat itself.

Please try the adjusted header for nvidia-glx I posted earlier, and
let me know if it helps.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen