[Yaird-devel] Processed: Re: Bug#410836: upstart: Option --debug described in README.Debian.gz does not work with yaird

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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clone 410836 -1
reassign 410836 upstart
retitle -1 yaird: cmdline option "--debug" causes "Attempt to kill init"
thanks

Michael Biebl wrote:
>> /usr/share/doc/upstart/README.Debian.gz contains following instruction:
>> 
>> > Upstart isn't working, how do I debug it?
>> > -----------------------------------------
>> > 
>> > Add "--debug" to the kernel command-line, and be sure to remove "quiet"
>> > and "splash" if existent.  You'll now see debugging messages as upstart
>> > works.
>> 
>> However, if I try to follow it, the /usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init complains
>> about invalid option, followed by kernel panic because of "Attempt to kill init".
>> I did not attempt to check whether the option works with mkinitrd.
> 
> The option works with initramfs-tools. 
> Reassigning the bug to yaird, I don't think yaird should filter out this
> option.

This looks to me as a valid upstart documentation bug: It is wrong to
assume that initramfs-tools option parsing works always.

I have bounced it back to upstart.


Thanks anyway for the notice: You are right that there might be
a(nother!) bug in yaird too: unknown options are supposed to get
ignored. I'll investigate this separately.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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