Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hello Lars, On Tue, 15 May 2012 15:05:50 +0200 Lars Ellenberg wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:24:12PM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote: > > > > Hello Phillip, > > > > thanks for a version that compiles out of the box on 3.x kernels. ^o^ > > > > However there is one outstanding and rather critical issue not > > addressed bit it, I'm talking about the lack of a: > > --- > > # X-Interactive: true > > --- > > line in the rc.d script. > > Sorry, I'm lazy, thus asking for pointers: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot > And that is supposed to have what effect? http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts Making it actually work and not just sit there and ignore input. ^o^ For example another init script in Debian testing marked interactive is apache2, for those really paranoid people who have passwords on their SSL keys. ^.^ > And that is supposed to work with which distributions? > And that is documented where? > See first URL, it being LSB pretty much every distro. > > This was recently fixed in Debian and has bitten yours truly quite > > painfully in the ass twice, before I realized what was going on. > > > > Since "wfc-timeout" defaults to 0 and pretty much all example > > configurations suggest that that as well the init script really needs > > to interactive. > > > > I experienced a double (both nodes) crash in the past, one node never > > recovered and the other was stuck in the boot process waiting for it > > with no way to resume booting due to the inability to actually enter > > "yes" at the prompt... > > The "yes" should work now, btw, > and you can always ssh in and kill the drbdsetup wait-conn processes. > I don't think it works on systems with dependency based boot w/o that X-Interactive line. And I think it hangs in the boot process before sshd is started (though I really haven't tested and thought of that), certainly before another console screen and logins are available. > > Would be nice if this could be fixed for any future releases and > > heads-up to anybody reading this. > > If we knew about that particular magic, > we might even have added that line already. > > But sorry, I don't really read (or follow) > init script magic comment RFCs too often ;-) > > Thanks for bringing this up. > No problem, I thought it might have caught your eyes when first doing that LSB header or when it was reported and fixed in Debian. > If you had brought it up during RC, > you probably had it in now. > See above, I was fully expecting it to be there and had no time for RC testing. Oh well, hopefully people will read this until the next release. Regards, Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi at gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications http://www.gol.com/