Petter> I would expect some script having X-Start-Before (reverse Petter> dependency) on xdm. There is no special handling of xdm in Petter> insserv.
I looked at the graph, and also at the insserv source code. I didn't find any more dependencies involving xdm than the ones we already knew about. I think the behavior is a consequence of this: /* * Put not existing services into a guessed order. * The maximal order of not existing services can be * set if they are required by existing services. */ in listing.c, plus the fact that I don't have any of the Should-Start services installed. I can't say for sure because I don't really understand the code, in fact it makes me cry. :-( However, further indirect evidence for this hypothesis is that xdm ends up sequenced the same even if I remove the 3 scripts immediately before it (cron, fetchamil, and mpd), leaving a hole in the sequence numbers. (Yes, I took care to first do insserv -f -r xdm, then insserv xdm.) I must also admit that I misunderstood how the parallelized /etc/rc works. I thought the symlink farm and the numbers still determined the scheduling; now I see all that is ignored and only the .depend.* files are relevant (and indeed xdm starts as early as the dependencies allow). So, probably demote this bug to minor, mostly targeting documentation so as to avoid the same confusion in other curious people. BTW - why keep the symlink farm around at all when it is not used? -- Ian Zimmerman <i...@buug.org> gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
