Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-13.10 Hi,
Quite a while ago, I put some effort in getting root-on-NBD working, and the support for that should have released with squeeze. Unfortunately, today I find that it doesn't work perfectly anymore. That is, I can boot the machine, work with it, etc, but at shutdown time, the poweroff does not work anymore. This is because halt is passed '-i' option these days, which (if I'm not mistaken) it did not do originally; and while it is possible to disable this by setting the NETDOWN variable in /etc/init.d/halt to 'no', that isn't something I can do from the nbd-client initscript (which is where I'm currently creating /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/nbd-client). I would therefore like to request that the initscript is modified in one of the following ways: - have the halt script not use 'halt -i' by default, - provide an interface for me to specify that the network should not be brought down at shutdown time, or - use similar logic to the "networking" script so that the network is not brought down if the system is running off the network. Personally, I prefer the first option. The networking script is already supposed to bring the network down, which means that if it didn't do that, it probably had a very good reason not to. Because of this bug, when running off the network, 'halt' will saw off the branch on which it is sitting, causing the kernel to panic rather than power down the system, which is pretty silly. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org