Re: Call for testing: Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu

2012-01-07 Thread James Hunt
On 23/12/11 13:47, Tim Gardner wrote: James - The kernel team has plenty of Precise systems that we can update. Given the fundamental nature of Upstart, is there any way to recover short of reinstalling if it completely breaks the boot ? Can we stash the original /sbin/init somewhere and

Re: Call for testing: Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu

2011-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:47:13AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: James - The kernel team has plenty of Precise systems that we can update. Given the fundamental nature of Upstart, is there any way to recover short of reinstalling if it completely breaks the boot ? There's always rescue mode in the

Call for testing: Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu

2011-12-22 Thread James Hunt
Hi All, We're looking to land Upstart 1.4 in Ubuntu Precise early January 2012. If you have an Ubuntu Precise test system [1] and you'd like to help with testing these new features, read on... = New Features = The two main new features are: - new 'setuid' and 'setgid' stanzas Allows you