On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 04:09:39PM -0000, Marcus Bointon wrote: > I'm running the updated upstart and plymouth-free grub2 config on two > newly installed amd64 boxes (bog-standard Dell 2950s) with today's > 2.6.32-24-server kernel, and I'm still finding a whole bunch of services > fail to start (cron, apache2, mysql, fail2ban, sysstat, postfix, openntpd, > mysql-mmm), along with the unknown runlevel issue. All of them (except > sysstat for some reason) start fine if I run telinit 2. One of them > reported the localhost interface breakage, but the other did not.
If the runlevel is not set at boot, the issue you're seeing is unrelated to this bug. The rc-sysinit job is failing to trigger, either because you have filesystems configured in /etc/fstab that are not being found and mounted at boot time, or because you don't have a properly configured loopback interface in /etc/network/interfaces. > It doesn't seem likely that all of these major, common packages have bugs > with identical symptoms - it's got to be a problem with upstart - so > reporting bugs on the packages is probably a waste of time. Yes, in that case the appropriate thing to do would be to file a *single* bug against upstart describing the problem. In any case, following up to this bug, which has been fixed, is not the correct approach. > This is a really major problem as it can (and does for us) render servers > non-functional and insecure by default - why is it marked as 'wontfix' and > downgraded from critical with no obvious pointer to a better bug? What is marked as 'wontfix' for the lucid and maverick releases is the kernel issue that led to this problem. The user-facing issue has been addressed. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- system services using "console output" not starting at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs